YouTube, bless them.

[jackandahat]

They're trying. They're really trying. But after yet another person went on about how autocaptioning was "close enough", I grabbed the last video I'd had open and took a look at just how close the autocaptioning was to what I could hear. (Disclaimer - I am hard of hearing, but I lipread pretty well, so I think I know what they were saying.)

15 errors in 25 seconds of video.

Several of these totally changed the plot, some were just damn silly.

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Comments

[jackandahat]

No, no they don't - because they don't need to. So clearly, they know better than us about accesibility.

Hell - last time I quoted captions, someone said that if I could hear the audio was wrong then I obviously don't need captions. Because... clearly, the ability to hear one obviously wrong line while concentrating means I can't follow a full movie with ease.

[codeman38]

ARGH YES YES YES.

If what I hear is "mumble mumble donut shop mumble" and the captions include "don't shout" where I heard "donut shop", that obviously means I could make out the rest of the dialogue, right? >_<

[jackandahat]

Or if something is just so amazingly wrong that even if I can't work out what the speaker is saying, it's obvious it isn't correct.

One example that just came up in my journal - what do you think this sentence actually was? "are you going to run the business have really the Atlantic for that"

[codeman38]

I had no idea, but I would never have gotten the correct transcript that you gave in your journal out of that!

[jackandahat]

Yep. Now granted - the man saying that has what a lot of English and American people tell me is a heavy accent. (He sounds like half my uncles, so I'm biased.) But talk about mangled!