Monday, 20 December 2010

YouTube's audio transcriber needs some work...

If you're on a YouTube video, in the bar at the bottom is 'CC'. If you click it you can turn on closed captions - but you can also choose audio transcribing.

If you choose that, YouTube will try and recognise the words being spoken and put them into speech. Try it. It's hilarious.

I just tried it with this video I made about horses - and here are my favourite bits that got lost in translation:

What should have been 'come back' came out as 'Vietcong pat'. Well done for trying, but I won't be recommending it for any hard-of-hearing friends just yet...

WHAT WAS SAID (YES): Where are you going?
WHAT THE SUBTITLES SAID (NO): Are you going to Taiwan?

YES: You used to dream of having...
NO: Used to dream of housing...

YES: ...ANYTHING...
NO: ...PIMPIN'...

YES: I've always thought I'd like to do a Rubik's Cube
NO: But quite often to will be executed

YES: Why would you play with a Rubik's Cube?
NO: Want to go over the movie excuse protests?

YES:More than what we seem.
NO: More than...greasy.

And so on. Pick a video you like...turn it on...it's funny.

Here are the horses (you'd have to open it in Youtube to turn on 'cc'):

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