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YouTube has automatic captioning though, which scales way better and does not suffer from the spam/vandalism problems of user generated captions. https://suppo
by howlgarnish 6y ago
YouTube has automatic captioning though, which scales way better and does not suffer from the spam/vandalism problems of user generated captions.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6373554?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6373554?hl=en
Creators can also add their own captions in multiple languages, but this relies on them working together with the community, which may not always be realistic.
- leppr 6y agoYoutube automatic transcriptions may be state-of-the-art technology, but from the perspective of a human consummer they're still extremely poor quality. I like to put on captions in my second language, and the automatic captions are basically just annoying UI spam. I can imagine how invaluable it is for a deaf person, they must get used to assume every transcribed word has only a 60% probability of being right, and quickly infer an array of possible meanings through context. But the experience is not comparable to human-transcribed subtitles.
- jobigoud 6y agoVery often auto captioning doesn't even detect the right language and then proceed to try match phonemes from the original language into words of the caption language.