I actually feel like the autocaptioning is one of those "I'm living in the future" moments. It's amazing to play a video in Swedish, and just have it autotransl

I actually feel like the autocaptioning is one of those "I'm living in the future" moments. It's amazing to play a video in Swedish, and just have it autotranslate. I love it. It's not as good in my opinion as good human translation, but I agree that I've seen many translations that were much much much worse than the autocaptioning. I have had some channels where I was laughing out loud at the autocaptioning, which was probably more so translation, but I did get a laugh out of it after all, and I generally knew what they were saying. I've also noticed that, at least with the videos I watch, usually the autocaptioning errors seem "phonemically correct", so it's substituting a word that sounds the same, and I can easily figure out what was meant. Usually I've noticed these problems with more so with non-American English (British or Australian for example), especially where there are multiple people all speaking English, but with different accents. It does seem to me the English speech recognition is honed in on some west coast or midwest US English accent. I am surprised contextual cues aren't being utilized more but I'm very happy with the YouTube speech recognition.