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AI is also able to create sub titles. So, people will have a choice. Many people prefer subtitles. Dubbing movies is common in big countries where the locals s

AI is also able to create sub titles. So, people will have a choice. Many people prefer subtitles. Dubbing movies is common in big countries where the locals speak nothing else than their own language. Here in Germany, you have to pay attention if you go to the cinema but they do have original language movies as well. Lots of Germans go to see those instead of the badly dubbed versions. I tossed out my TV ages ago because I don't speak German very well and don't like watching dubbed content. Especially if that content is originally in English which I actually can understand. One annoyance with the local netflix here is that while they have most content with the original sound track, they often swap out a lot of the text in these movies with German text. E.g. movie fragments showing a news paper or somebody's text messages, or the famous rolling text in star wars. And of course a lot of American movies or series sometimes feature people not speaking English. Netflix solves this by offering German sub titles. And sometimes those are actually baked into the movie. Par of the issue is that there's a big dubbing industry that is incentivized to keep on dubbing everything whether people like it or not. AI will decimate how profitable that business is.

distances 5y ago
> Netflix solves this by offering German sub titles. This is my pet peeve about streaming services. Why would they have only German subtitles in Germany? The licensing costs of all major languages can't be prohibitive. I only watch content that has English subtitles -- Netflix has thankfully improved on including them, but otherwise you're mostly out of luck. Even Blu-rays need to be imported if you want to have English subtitles on English movies!
- Mindwipe 5y ago
  > The licensing costs of all major languages can't be prohibitive. It's not the cost, it's that their removal is a disincentive for people to use VPNs to hop outside of their usual residential territory.
  - distances 5y ago
    Netflix doesn't ship all the languages even with their own content, so it can't be the only reason. But good point, never thought of that, and truly sad if access restrictions again is the reason for legal services delivering less than piracy.
    - cyphar 5y ago
      If you change Netflix's interface language you'll get access to more languages for both subtitle and audio tracks. I suspect there's some estimation going on to figure out what languages someone is most likely to know given a certain interface language and location. This is a somewhat common annoyance language learners run into because it's not obvious that you need to go through these hoops to get access to the language you'd like to use.
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distances 5y ago

> Netflix solves this by offering German sub titles. This is my pet peeve about streaming services. Why would they have only German subtitles in Germany? The licensing costs of all major languages can't be prohibitive. I only watch content that has English subtitles -- Netflix has thankfully improved on including them, but otherwise you're mostly out of luck. Even Blu-rays need to be imported if you want to have English subtitles on English movies!

Mindwipe 5y ago
> The licensing costs of all major languages can't be prohibitive. It's not the cost, it's that their removal is a disincentive for people to use VPNs to hop outside of their usual residential territory.
- distances 5y ago
  Netflix doesn't ship all the languages even with their own content, so it can't be the only reason. But good point, never thought of that, and truly sad if access restrictions again is the reason for legal services delivering less than piracy.
  - cyphar 5y ago
    If you change Netflix's interface language you'll get access to more languages for both subtitle and audio tracks. I suspect there's some estimation going on to figure out what languages someone is most likely to know given a certain interface language and location. This is a somewhat common annoyance language learners run into because it's not obvious that you need to go through these hoops to get access to the language you'd like to use.
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