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The Reason You Use Closed Captions for Everything Now

by randomerr on 1/12/20, 11:56 PM with 3 comments

  • by Causality1 on 1/12/20, 11:59 PM

    I wish "proper nouns only" closed captioning was a thing. "King Byanlethroun of House Herethrofod" can be tough to catch accurately.
  • by anonymousiam on 1/13/20, 12:06 AM

    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.