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Just a single native-language caption track is all that's necessary. Computers can already do a pretty good job of translating that into the hundreds of other p
by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Just a single native-language caption track is all that's necessary. Computers can already do a pretty good job of translating that into the hundreds of other possible languages.
- teraflop 12y agoThis is extremely dependent on which languages you're talking about. For instance, my experience with automatic translation between Japanese and English varies from "jumbled, but conveys the gist of the original text" to "entirely incoherent". (Bing seems to do slightly better than Google, incidentally.)
- jamesbrownuhh 12y agoAccepted. Far better than nothing at all (in most cases) though, I'd suggest.
- icebraining 12y agoI think the point people are making is that a video without captions is also far better than no video at all.
- jamesbrownuhh 12y agoI don't disagree with that in the slightest. Even a video that is not captioned today, could be captioned tomorrow.