‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI
‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI
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‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI
Youtube's AI generated subtitles are the worst. They're borderline useless, I have to spend as much time trying to explain to my hard-of-hearing grandmother what the people actually said instead of the confusing grammarless gobbledygook that the subtitles said, as I would if we just had subtitles off and I had to simply tell her the words she couldn't hear. I hate it.
Yep. They "see" music and applause at every corner.
I also find it loves to caption background noise "Heat" for some reason.
Every single time I try youtube subtitles because I didn’t understand something, they end up being useless AI subtitles and I am faced with disappointment again.
I could understand how it would be helpful for the hearing impaired watching clearly-enunciated youtube videos, though. Should still hire professionals for movies.
The automated captions have been there for ages, and yeah, they often have a lot of mistakes especially if there are other sounds in the background.
But what sucks even more are those auto-dubbed videos, because often they are made from those subs. So now they speak in AI voices using a broken translation from a faulty transcript. Great, thanks youtube, very helpful.
Years ago, there used to be community subtitles as a feature - people could submit translations and corrections and creators could then allow them on the video. Why they removed that I don't know, but those would be really fucking handy now that you want to auto-dub the videos eh, youtube?
For those of us used to using multiple cues they can help, but they're also often absolutely terrible
I'm pretty sure it's just text recognition. I don't think it's AI I think it's the same garbage text recognition system they've had in there home hub speaker things for ages. Still infinitely better than what they've got in Siri.