#automatic captions

[marauders4evr]

*Sniffs* I remember when Aang stared down at the trapped Firelord Ozai and said these powerful words:

Truly some of the best writing in the show.

[ID: A photo of Aang but the caption says Captions Are Auto Generated, instead of the actual dialogue. It’s an annoying Facebook feature that ruins intense scenes.]

[tsfanart]

Auto-caption fails + crack edits! In order, we have: "You should really give us fair warning before pulling us into one of these lungs [vlogs], Thomas." "Dish towel [De Stijl] movement" "Music Brain Market [An Easy Framework]" "Ladies, Hoards [Lords], and Nonbinary Royalty" "I claimed to be the better Bart [bard], and I backed it up."

[lespetitstrucs]

The most #relatable automatic CCs from Merry Maidens. 

(Also thanks @greatestvoyagehistoryofplastic for giving me the idea to collect the funny auto captions like she did for @awayfromitallseries.) 

[stinkek]

“Daffy - The Commando” in Italian dub + English automatic captions = this

“Daily AIDS Day”... GO HOME, YOUTUBE, YOU’RE DRUNK.

[aslfan]

After apology, Chris Pratt suggests automatic captions on Instagram

American actor Chris Pratt recently posted an Instagram video advocating for closed captions to be an option for all Instagram videos.

[moonchildzine]

[grassisforgolfers]

I think about the ending of this clip of 12-yo Casper a lot.

[tommyssupercoolblog]

very surprised to discover that the inaccuracy of automatic captions isn't common knowledge. most people in my circle know that human-made, accurate captions are better, but i've found a lot of folks under that "video tutorial" textpost I just reblogged telling everyone who wants to read instead or who need captions about automatic captions, and that they should just use those.

So in case no one's told you this before, because it makes sense if you don't use them to be unaware: automatic captions are wrong a lot. a LOT.

Especially with overlapping voices of course, but even with one speaker, a clear microphone, and no background music, it can miss entire sentences or replace words with other ones.

For either a person who needs written instruction or a person with hearing difficulties, they're very impractical. so they don't actually solve the problem of needing captions or regular text.

Manual captions work much better for those who are hard of hearing or have processing difficulties. They of course don't come with an automatic transscript, though, which loops back to point of that video post: we need written-only options as well.

/gen /lh /nm /info