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It's surprising because Google loves to use handicapped and disabled users as example cases of how important their technologies are. One of the most prominent e
by ocdtrekkie 6y ago
It's surprising because Google loves to use handicapped and disabled users as example cases of how important their technologies are. One of the most prominent early videos for the self-driving car project hinged on the idea that it would let a blind person go to a drive-thru at a restaurant.
When they turn around and cut off a surely much less cost-heavy accessibility feature seemingly at random, to many users complaint, it is, in fact, surprising.
As far as recourse, it'd be a bit of a stretch to use the ADA here, but I wouldn't be totally surprised if someone tried a lawsuit in this instance: Google is cutting off handicapped users for almost no real cost to themselves.
- deadbunny 6y agoOr is that that their AI/ML is good enough that they don't need to crowd source captioning now?
- tmpz22 6y agoNo way it handles all languages with the same effectiveness.
- kelnos 6y agoHell, it even sucks at accented English. A friend turned me onto the UK series Taskmaster, which is available on YouTube. I turn on captions/subtitles as a matter of habit, and the auto-generated captions for that show are atrocious. Yes, that show includes a variety of UK English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh accents, but... damn, it's bad.
- Talanes 6y agoA lot of accents, but still all native accents from the same few islands. Speech is such a vast field.
- coeneedell 6y agoNot to mention how many non-native speakers there are making English language videos out there, many educational videos too. It's just not a smart move.
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- henrikschroder 6y agoNo, it sucks.
- zimpenfish 6y agoBased on what I've seen, it can't even cope with simple plain English - in a video I watched earlier, in just the first 90 seconds, "This subject has" -> "If his subject has", "A weapon that was" -> "Her weapon fat was", "spherical shape" -> "severe achill shape".
- h0h0h0h0111 6y agoA part of me hopes they never quite crack it, so I can keep having a laugh at some of the subtitles generated for UK regional accents
- formerly_proven 6y agoWhenever I don't understand something, I used to skip back and turn CCs on - this works fine if they were made by a human. It never works when they're automatically generated; if I can't understand it, there's a 100 % chance the automatic captions are garbage, and even if I can easily understand it, the automatic captions are still wrong like 80 % of the time.
- type0 6y agoEven if that was so, it's a bit like saying that blind won't need braille because there's text-to-speech. And English isn't the only language on youtube