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The Reason You Use Closed Captions for Everything Now

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2 points by randomerr 6 years ago · 4 comments

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Causality1 6 years ago

I wish "proper nouns only" closed captioning was a thing. "King Byanlethroun of House Herethrofod" can be tough to catch accurately.

anonymousiam 6 years ago

My wife speaks English as a second language (very fluently), but sometimes she has trouble with various accents so we leave the closed captions on most of the time. I seem to catch at least two or three transcription errors every time I watch something. I believe AI is used for most transcription, and it does a poor job when it lacks context for the content.

  • coldtea 6 years ago

    >I seem to catch at least two or three transcription errors every time I watch something. I believe AI is used for most transcription, and it does a poor job when it lacks context for the content

    If AI was indeed used end-to-end (and not e.g. just as a first pass) you'd catch way more than 2-3 errors per show...

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