Funny YouTube Subtitle

[DaleCooper]

An interesting video about fossils from Aron Ra.
Imagine a deaf conspiracy theorist seeing the subtitles at 1:50.

"this piece is actually the elbow of a large herbivorous tiny calf alien."

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Those aliens must be rather larger than the one that gets trodden on in the TV advert after threatening to invade Earth...

 

[krus_aragon]

Youtube certainly doesn't have the monopoly on this. Subtitles for live television (which are typed in phonetically) can be a gold mine.

During the opening ceremony for the 2008 Olympics, as the competitors marched into the stadium, at one point the BBC's subtitles read "but for these atheletes, it is simply a dream to be chaste" .

 

[nlogax]

If you've ever used Zoom's transcribe function for web conferences you'll already be well aware of similar limitations..

 

[najaB]

Youtube certainly doesn't have the monopoly on this. Subtitles for live television (which are typed in phonetically) can be a gold mine.

They're normally produced by automated speech recognition software. Which is much, much better than it used to be but can still result in the occasional howler.

For anyone who has a AWS account, have a play around with Amazon Transcribe: https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/

 

[krus_aragon]

They're normally produced by automated speech recognition software. Which is much, much better than it used to be but can still result in the occasional howler.

For anyone who has a AWS account, have a play around with Amazon Transcribe: https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/

My memory had gone a bit misty over time, it is indeed a trained speaker talking to speech recognition software, with a keyboard to select homophones (and do other stuff). At least it is these days.

The mistaken subtitle was definitely as I typed it, though.