Subtitles are so dogshit nowadays. I frequently have to ask my husband if they're correct because they don't make sense half the time and I'm mildly hearing impaired in addition to having auditory processing issues. It sucks.
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Drag Race is especially bad for this to the point it's become a running joke. "I see you feed your kids" lives rent free in my head and it was a bad subtitle for "I see you, theatre kids"
I was watching a film on Prime the other week and at one point there was a conversation in the Shawnee native American language. Amazon's wonderful automated subtitleing rendered this as a nonsensical string of English words that sounded vaguely like what was actually being said.
Watched a film on prime once where the only subtitles were the audio description. So you wouldn't get dialogue, instead you'd get "a knife flies into a nearby box", which you wouldn't only be able to read if you could see it anyway
The same film also had a central character called Leah. Or alternatively based on the subtitles she may have been Leia, Leo, Leda, Leila, Lee or on one occasion Ryan.
Ffs I don't get it. If you can't be bothered to employ people to do it then atleast employ some to check it. It's literally unwatchable for people who rely on it
Captioning is one of the earliest victims of "AI." My gf made her living for a few years for an internet captioning company, training the system which was only about 70% accurate. That work got less and less viable, and it's got a threshold executives seem happy with.
I can certainly empathise. I'm largely deaf in one ear, so need subtitles for clarity (especially watching something with surround sound), and subtitles either don't follow the script, or they're just messed up - and I can sorta tell by watching the people's lips and figuring it out.
Yeah I don't even bother with them half the time. It's okay for me I guess because sometimes I can use context clues to figure out the correct word but if the dialogue is going too fast I can't. It must be awful for those who have worse hearing impairment.
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