[Galene] Re: WebRTC unConference this tuesday, would love more speakers

[Sean DuBois <sean@siobud.com>]

Dave,

That sounds like a really great talk! I haven't thought of these
problems before.

If you are interested I would love to help build a prototype of the
ideas you have. If we can build something that others find compelling I
bet we could find contributors if it works. There are some good existing
Speech-to-Text Open Source projects, we just need to solve the FFI
maybe?

The conference will run May 18th 2021, 5-8 PM CEST / 8-11 AM PST the
home page is a bit better https://unconf.wonder.me

On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 08:00:14AM -0700, Dave Taht wrote:
> I proposed a session with roughly this text. I am cc-ing a friend even more
> blind than I am.
>
> ...
>
> Very cool. I note that my principal use for videoconferencing is because I
> am blind in one eye and deaf in one ear. Until the rise of webrtc I relied
> on skype and its emacs interface to cope with many interactions and
> I often find it difficult to find various icons and interfaces in all the webrtc
> clients and web browsers I've been asked to cope with.
>
> Discovering that the now common, and mandatory TFA texting method
> didn't work with skype, recently, was no fun. skype rings all my devices,
> nothing else does.
>
> And if I lose the other eye or other ear, I will have really insurmountable
> problems. Knowing this, I've worked really hard to make videoconferencing work
> well, starting with my work in the rmcat working group years ago,
> and continuing with some excitement into galene now, where, finally
> having access into a SFU, I can make a difference.
>
> It's oft kind of difficult for me to talk publicly about my problems,
> and ask others to help solve them...  but I would  really like webrtc
> clients to have working speech to text (and text to speech), in
> particular.  3d positional audio would be nice, also, using
> ambisonics.
>
> Also a debate feature where each participant would be limited by the
> software to a 2 minute speaking time with a visual clock, would be
> nice. I've been harangued a bit too often of late, and merely raising
> my hand to invoke robert's rules of order not work well enough.
>
> I reworked what I just wrote into a generic "Improving webrtc for people with
> disabilities" talk... It's not clear what timezone the conference is in.
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 7:30 AM Sean DuBois <sean@siobud.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hey List,
> >
> > The details are at https://unconf.wonder.me/event it can be as short/long as you want it!
> > I really would love first time speakers. Lots of interesting things happening in the space,
> > we need new voices. Just share your perspective on WebRTC.
> >
> > Even if you have a germ of an idea share it and we can iterate.
> >
> > * Robotics
> > * Game streaming
> > * Code bases/specific SFUs
> > * Learning WebRTC and what you found challenging
> > * Share your interesting project
> > * Talk about what WebRTC needs. How can we improve it?
> >
> > This conference also will be using Galene! I wrote a tool that generates
> > rooms from a web form https://github.com/sean-der/unrtc-schedule-maker
> > will write a README so others can use soon as well.
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