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*Vanity/Rant* - Anyone notice that subtitles on Youtube are completely whacked (hacked)?
03/11/22 | Self

Posted on 03/10/2022 10:44:09 PM PST by know.your.why

What gives?


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: hacked; internet; vanity; whiner; youtube

1 posted on 03/10/2022 10:44:09 PM PST by know.your.why
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To: know.your.why
Looks like Welsh...almost.

Maybe there's a bug in the system. Could it be an issue with the Fox News video itself, and not YouTube? I just checked some of the YouTube video subscriptions I have, and the CC is fine on those.

2 posted on 03/10/2022 10:54:02 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: know.your.why
It is because the automatic speech to text program YouTube uses can be pretty bad.
Unless a transcript is uploaded with the video, the auto subtitles are often useless.
3 posted on 03/10/2022 10:59:06 PM PST by Widget Jr
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To: know.your.why

A remake of What’s Up Tiger Lilly?


4 posted on 03/10/2022 11:01:23 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Widget Jr

I watch some car videos on youtube (Matt’s off road rescues, Jay Leno’s garage, etc.)

I always get a kick when the various wonderful car noises (tires, engine, etc.) get subtitled as “music” or “applause” - it fits! (That turbo is music to my ears.)


5 posted on 03/10/2022 11:06:13 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: know.your.why
Norwegian translation
Fix your settings.
6 posted on 03/10/2022 11:38:12 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: know.your.why

Common core english?


7 posted on 03/10/2022 11:52:20 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: 21twelve

What I find amusing, is when I am watching a movie (or something similar), and the subtitle says something about a conversation in the background, when there is none.


8 posted on 03/11/2022 3:03:17 AM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: mass55th

I’m hearing impaired (well on my way to being deaf),so I have CC on the tv 24/7.
Fox News and some other channels on our local cable system have a similar problem from time to time. It’s not total gibberish, but someone will be speaking and I’m following along, and all of a sudden, the CC will stop mid-sentence.
The person or persons talking will keep on talking for like maybe 15 seconds or so, and THEN the CC will start up again. Sometimes it will go real fast to catch up, sometimes it won’t. I can only guess as to what was said.
Maybe what you’re seeing is hacking, I’ve never seen it on YouTube before, but it could be.
CC can be frustrating at times, and entertaining in its own at other times.

One time I was watching a fishing program on the Sportsman’s Channel and the Closed Captioning dialogue was from a show about bear hunting…..
I emailed them and let them know about it, and that I thought it was hilarious.
Weeks later I received a reply apologizing, they had checked into it and found it to be true.


9 posted on 03/11/2022 3:19:39 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: know.your.why

I looked. at the player settings and found that there’s now a choice called American English. When I selected that, the correct captions were displayed.

Weird…


10 posted on 03/11/2022 3:59:45 AM PST by DJ Frisat (My tag line, optionally printed after the name on my post…)
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To: know.your.why

Change the KIND of cc’s you want under options.


11 posted on 03/11/2022 7:42:42 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Return to energy INDEPENDENCE and all of today‘s news stops happening.)
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To: sheik yerbouty

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti.


12 posted on 03/11/2022 7:43:57 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: mass55th

Or old English.


13 posted on 03/15/2022 11:06:02 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up! )
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