With the world on working from home mode, we are doing more video conferences and need the ability to take notes with all the meetings we are conducting. An automated captioning system like Otter.ai can help create captions and taking meeting notes at real time. Such a system can be useful when we need to mute a conference, or give a hearing impaired participant ability to “listen in” visually. It can also help create asynchronous meetings where other participants can read the transcripts at their leisure.
Social Tightening
A week into the full WFH (working from home), I can sense a few of my acquaintances are climbing the wall already. These are software engineers, who among all the people are most familiar with WFH. With all the things happening, the term “Social Distancing” is not helping. This is the time when we need our social group more than ever. While we must extend our physical distances, extended personal space?, we need to tighten our social bonds. Call your parents, text your friends, host a BYOB web meeting, give thanks to the mailman, delivery person, casher, and especially the health care staff.