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YouTube automatically transcribes captions for its videos. So that is why they are so funny sometimes. As a YT creator, it is possible to upload your own capti
by jacurtis 6y ago
YouTube automatically transcribes captions for its videos. So that is why they are so funny sometimes.
As a YT creator, it is possible to upload your own captions if you have any transcribed, which will then be used in place of the automatic ones. But 99.9% of YT videos are using automatic captions.
Edit: Ok, I started watching the first video in this series and these are manually uploaded captions. So Stanford got the videos transcribed and manually uploaded the captions to Youtube. I wonder if various students did the captioning. So each student described the music differently. I laughed because the first video describes the music as "Regal Music".
- reaperducer 6y agoI wonder if various students did the captioning It's possible. But there are plenty of companies that do subtitle transcription pretty cheaply. Local TV newscasts used to pipe the scripts from their TelePrompTers into the closed captioning encoder, but that wasn't good enough when the law changed in the late 90's because then there wasn't any text for interviews or weather segments. Now you can hire a company like Denver Caption that will have someone dial into a special phone line at the TV station and transcribe the content in real time, sending it directly back to the station's encoder. This is why when more than one person is talking, you can see in the text how the person captioning gets overloaded. Or they might use the wrong form of a word or phrase that would be easy to pick if someone was watching video, but easy to get wrong if they're only listening to audio over a phone line.