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For DU'ers who make videos - please INCLUDE captioning! (Original Post) Just for Fun Dec 2014 OP
Automatic captions still suck, only humans understand humans for now jakeXT Dec 2014 #1
we've been having fun with the captions from "shameless" on bbc america unblock Dec 2014 #2
In the captioner's defense, they aren't likely looking at the video, just listening. DRoseDARs Dec 2014 #3
many of the errors are because listening is not all about the sound. unblock Dec 2014 #4
I like the sign for "hashtag" cyberswede Dec 2014 #5
That's excellent advice! hunter Dec 2014 #6
K&R yuiyoshida Dec 2014 #7

unblock

(51,973 posts)
2. we've been having fun with the captions from "shameless" on bbc america
Mon Dec 29, 2014, 03:03 PM
Dec 2014

it's apparent that british idiom is completely lost on whoever or whatever is doing the captioning, but that's only a fraction of the errors.


one of my favorites was when they got the captioning wrong when someone was reading a letter aloud.


the letter was right there on the screen, lol, and they still got it wrong.

 

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)
3. In the captioner's defense, they aren't likely looking at the video, just listening.
Mon Dec 29, 2014, 03:25 PM
Dec 2014

Human or robot, it's all about the sound.

unblock

(51,973 posts)
4. many of the errors are because listening is not all about the sound.
Mon Dec 29, 2014, 05:49 PM
Dec 2014

context matters.

"i scream"
"ice cream"
"aye, scream"
"eye scream"
"eyes cream"
"eyes, kareem"

hunter

(38,263 posts)
6. That's excellent advice!
Tue Dec 30, 2014, 01:16 PM
Dec 2014

But I've run into video producers who deliberately don't caption because they don't want transcripts of their work to be easily extracted.

Shifty preachers are the most amusing of that lot, they frequently plagiarize the work of others and they don't want their hate speech to be easily indexed.

I think it's interesting the DVD captioning standard specifies the use of images of letters for captioning. The expectation was that it would make extraction of transcripts difficult. DVDs are also encrypted. Both schemes of content protection were overcome fairly quickly, which was one of the forces that propelled the Digital Millennium Copyright Act through Congress and across Bill Clinton's desk.

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