Topic: Youtube auto captions

Anonymous A started this discussion 2 years ago #114,843

Anyone else notice how it says "[Music]" at the most laughable times? Like when an engine starts.

It's also quite bad at Jamaican accents. I remember one time it thought this guy was saying something like "smash a girl's face in". I don't remember what exactly he said, but it had nothing to do with girls or smashing (in any form).

Also love it when it claims someone said "God did this", "God said this" or similar in a video that has nothing to do with religion and no where uses the word god.

It makes me wonder how much better youtube's recommendation system could be if they actually knew what half these videos were about.

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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 5 minutes later[^] [v] #1,269,885

YT captions are the worse ever. They aren't even close most times.

boof joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,269,944

people's comments are pretty terrible also

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 2 years ago, 46 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,269,956

@previous (boof)
Some of them are pretty funny. But for the most part they're worse than even minichan's

boof replied with this 2 years ago, 41 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,269,986

well I mean weird hit-and-run political comments taking dig at some political leader when the video had jack shit to do with political stuff at all. these fuckers have their television or radio tuned in to bullshit all day and can't think of anything else in this world

Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 2 years ago, 6 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,269,993

@previous (boof)
Sad thing is if 90% of youtube comments were replaced by bots, it'd be completely indistinguishable. Same goes for reddit

You'd almost hope that the comments have already been replaced by bots. But this shit has been going on long before

Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 16 hours later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,270,094

On one of my songs it incorrectly captions the opening riff as "[applause]" followed by a "thank you" lmao

Come on Youtube I'm not THAT full of myself

Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 3 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,270,096

I think it's weird when tv or movies have proper captioning, but they don't transcribe the curse words

Feels infantilizing to the deaf and hard of hearing

Minichan