Video & Multimedia
Related: About this forumjakeXT
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(51,973 posts)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)Human or robot, it's all about the sound.
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(51,973 posts)context matters.
"i scream"
"ice cream"
"aye, scream"
"eye scream"
"eyes cream"
"eyes, kareem"
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)hunter
(38,263 posts)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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