Auto Captions
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Well said, Streaming Media magazine! Liam Moran’s “Writing Text for Video: Did Someone Say ‘Autumn Aided Cap Shins’?”
The following article by Liam Moran in the June 2018 volume of Streaming Media magazine does a fantastic job explaining the shortcomings of automated Artifical Intelligence (AI) captions. Worth reading! http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Writing-Text-for-Video-Did-Someone-Say-Autumn-Aided-Cap-Shins-125614.aspx Writing Text for Video: Did Someone Say ‘Autumn Aided Cap Shins’? Maybe, but they probably said “automated captions.” Creating reliable captions is a challenge, but… Continue reading
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Caption fail at Princess Eugenie’s wedding
Twitter caption read: “What a beautiful breasts. Absolutely fitting her.” A spokesperson for the BBC said: “Our live subtitling service produces accuracy levels in excess of 98% but, as with all broadcasters, there are instances- particularly during live broadcasts – when mistakes happen. On this occasion the voice recognition subtitling software made an error.” And… Continue reading
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Insulting things people say to captioners
There are some misconceptions out there about how accurate voice recognition technology is, and also about how captions get formatted. MISCONCEPTION 1: Voice recognition technology automatically transcribes the words spoken on screen and “makes” the closed captions. Uh, no. Ever watch the auto-generated captions on YouTube? The captions are often comically wrong. But on the plus… Continue reading
About Me
Hello there! My name is Vicki Kipp, and I am a closed caption maker. Making closed captions is time consuming and complicated, so this blog is a collection of all of the knowledge and experiences I have gained. I hope my collection of tips and tricks might help you with your closed caption work the way it has helped me!
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