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Ron Obvious

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12. It's been slipshod for years.

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Sat Dec 5, 2020, 10:22 PM

Dec 2020

Whether it's voice-recognition or interns who haven't watched the show and have a bad ear for accents, I don't know.

One I particularly remember: " 'anging is too good for 'im " transcribed as "Annie is too good for him" (There was no Annie in the show at all, but the transcriber apparently couldn't understand a Northern accent.)

Every time I watch with subtitles on it irritates me. Of course, I irritate easily as the best of times.

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Is Closed Captioning done by people or by sound-recognition machines? *Fails* [View all] UTUSN Dec 2020 OP

Some of them are really bad. louis-t Dec 2020 #1

Yip, & the volume levels of speech are so variable UTUSN Dec 2020 #2

The different volume levels had me thinking I was hard of hearing. zanana1 Dec 2020 #15

The AppleTV has a feature... targetpractice Dec 2020 #16

youtube with their auto captions can be rediculus at times . ugh. AllaN01Bear Dec 2020 #3

Bad captioning or subtitling might was around in the late '60s. JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2020 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Laffy Kat Dec 2020 #8

I had replied that that was totally bizarre. Laffy Kat Dec 2020 #9

I knew a gal who used a stenotype for captioning the news blaze Dec 2020 #5

So actual humans do it? Plus, hilarious are the Google translations! UTUSN Dec 2020 #6

Well, my experience was... decades ago but blaze Dec 2020 #7

Yes, think they always will. Laffy Kat Dec 2020 #10

It's got to be both: sometimes humans, sometimes auto-recognize. Beartracks Dec 2020 #11

It's been slipshod for years. Ron Obvious Dec 2020 #12

"irritate easily" - hah! Refreshing on you, just ornery age on me! UTUSN Dec 2020 #13

Perhaps both, but obviously the tech is here to do it by machine. Buckeye_Democrat Dec 2020 #14