I believe this kind of feature would require audio stream being sent to a separate service to peform speech to text services. It would be a significant privacy concern and a set of technical hurdles that I dont forsee being addressed in the near term.
Thanks for reaching out with this accessibility question though as its a good reminder to add reasonable features to aid in the user experience.
You mentioned your mobile device has some accessibility features of its own but can get in the way of typing in the chat box...
Can you provide more information about this? The type of device being used (phone? tablet?), the screen resolution available and how the features get in the way of typing? If you have screenahots or photos of that it would help me understand.
The current text chat in Corny Chat is a bit clunky and will likely be overhauled in the future. So anything that can be highlighted as things working well as is vs that which is problematic Id be interested in feedback on to work into a future update.
As someone who also takes privacy seriously, I can see from your point of view, as a dev, in how this could be detrimental to the those who prefer to use #cornychat for its privacy-preserving & anonymity user experience.
Though I appreciate you for taking the time to see the barriers from my point of view & considered the options, despite the unfortunate outcome. This was a far better customer service experience (in receiving a direct answer) than I would have gotten elsewhere.
As for your inquiries, I used a phone with 2556x1179 pixels for screen resolution. I did manage to get a photo of the chat box with the Live Caption enabled, but it doesn’t show the issue I had during the time. Specifically when I clicked to type, the keyboard will pop up taking up the space to where the point where I couldn’t see the chat due to the caption box covering it & if I want to see the full transcript in full screen to keep up with the dialogue happening from different people, I’d have to sacrifice my typing to read the transcript.
It’s a hassle, but what I ended up doing was use my computer to join the cornychat using the room link, enable the Live Caption there, and read the the full screen transcript while using my phone to type what I wanted to say in the audience without any major complications.
To visualize the UX difficulties for the phone by itself, I’ll try to screen-record for better clarification. Maybe that’ll help from a dev point of view
This is a challenging layout as when typing the device keyboard will slide up from bottom pushing the screen up, and with the overlay it wont leave much room at all for reading the room text chat.
Right, so I figured for next time the best way to go about it would be using a tablet or my laptop instead
