YouTube Auto-Captioning
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I tried to autocaption two of my previously captioned videos. I took off the captions and let YouTube try its hand. Well, so much for a fun opportunity to comparing the original captioned video and YouTube's. YouTube's autocaptioning failed in both cases. Maybe my accent was too much for it.
OK, I'll take a little something over nothing. Heck, you can get a lot of laughs by searching for youtube caption fail in Twitter. Latest from YouTube on captioning and YouTube's autocaptioning instructions. Also, here's a blog post about Google's Smart Captioning Move.
Just last night, I caught a funny caption mistake. The caption said, "A strange couple" in reference to Jin and Sun on Lost. I said to my husband, "Oh my gosh... that's so politically incorrect."
"It's 'estranged,'" corrected my husband. And that made sense.
Talk about a bad typo.
More captionfails:
What are some of your favorite captionfails?
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Comments
And a great post on this topic: “Auto-garbled captioning.”
Posted by: Meryl | March 18, 2010 8:32 AM
My favorite auto-captioning blooper is this one, from an episode of “Sid the Science Kid”. I heard the alphabet song many times in school, but I don’t recall it ever quite going like this:
http://twitpic.com/siem9
Posted by: codeman38 | March 18, 2010 2:19 PM
Ha! Good find, Codeman! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Meryl | March 18, 2010 2:35 PM