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Distance teaching imposes the need to follow videotaped lessons and to participate in videoconferences, both for moments of confrontation in teaching and to dialogue with teachers. It is possible to obtain subtitling of video and audio automatically and in total autonomy using the following services:

Resources for automatic subtitling

on iOS devices, the most comfortable and effective subtitling application is probably Ava, which listens and transcribes what is picked up by the device's microphone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ava-best-live-captions/id1030067058
Ava also has a version for Android devices: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.transcense.ava_beta
on Android it is also possible to use the Google "Instant Transcription" app, which is simpler and more immediate than the previous one and also allows you to save texts by copy-paste: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.audio.hearing.visualization.accessibility.scribe
on any PC with the Google Chrome browser it is possible to obtain automatic subtitles using Web Captioner: https://webcaptioner.com
Also in this case, the transcribed audio is that received by the computer through the microphone, so the transcription of recordings and videoconferences is not optimal.
for advanced use of Web Captioner, or to subtitle everything that comes from the audio output of the computer, it is possible to configure the device's audio system to "forward" the signal to Web Captioner. A video tutorial is available to perform this operation on Windows and Mac: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSKXnOnqNYA
The software to be installed to obtain what is described in the video can be downloaded from here:
- for Mac > https://bit.ly/sf-mac
- for Windows > https://bit.ly/vbcable