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While you make a good point about screen readers, there actually are tools that automatically translate a video into text. In fact, doesn't YouTube's "CC" butto

While you make a good point about screen readers, there actually are tools that automatically translate a video into text. In fact, doesn't YouTube's "CC" button do that? The translation isn't great, but it's usually good enough and will probably get better over time.

kuschku 9y ago
YouTube’s CC button is bad. Seriously, Google Translate is far better, and even that is impossible to understand. Especially when the discussion includes technical terms. The only time YouTube’s CC button works even slightly okay is if the uploader manually transscribed everything.
kuschku 9y ago
For comparison, this is the output of YouTube’s CC button applied to a video, and the text extracted. Not exactly a readable article. > extremely pleased to have our first and indeed only genuine superhero you you may have come across know and across the internet as Captain disillusion you've already seen some their fantastic work there you to tell is amazing if you haven't seen it I I personally do subscribe to it they're given there are over quarter of a million other subscribers I am statistically insignificant and you should update I think the number of views on the channel has now passed 15 million so if you could all adjust your booklet accordingly that would be appreciated captain disillusion will be talking to us about heroic feats of YouTube D bunker II so can you please I think we're set put your hands together welcome to stage Captain disillusion hello hi quick clarification I'm not Compton disillusion obviously my name is Alan and I'm an intern at disillusion industries the captain's… Now here’s the output of a written article automatically turned into speech: https://s3.kuschku.de/public/audio.mp3 https://s3.kuschku.de/public/audio.mp3 Now tell me, which of them is more usable?

kuschku 9y ago

YouTube’s CC button is bad. Seriously, Google Translate is far better, and even that is impossible to understand. Especially when the discussion includes technical terms. The only time YouTube’s CC button works even slightly okay is if the uploader manually transscribed everything.

kuschku 9y ago

For comparison, this is the output of YouTube’s CC button applied to a video, and the text extracted. Not exactly a readable article. > extremely pleased to have our first and indeed only genuine superhero you you may have come across know and across the internet as Captain disillusion you've already seen some their fantastic work there you to tell is amazing if you haven't seen it I I personally do subscribe to it they're given there are over quarter of a million other subscribers I am statistically insignificant and you should update I think the number of views on the channel has now passed 15 million so if you could all adjust your booklet accordingly that would be appreciated captain disillusion will be talking to us about heroic feats of YouTube D bunker II so can you please I think we're set put your hands together welcome to stage Captain disillusion hello hi quick clarification I'm not Compton disillusion obviously my name is Alan and I'm an intern at disillusion industries the captain's… Now here’s the output of a written article automatically turned into speech: https://s3.kuschku.de/public/audio.mp3 https://s3.kuschku.de/public/audio.mp3 Now tell me, which of them is more usable?