Automatic subtitles
During the election campaign, I wrote a blog posting about an uplifting video.
At some point, I discovered that YouTube are testing automatic subtitles, i.e., speech recognition, and that it was available for this video.
Here’s is my transcription of the video, together with YouTube/Google’s take on it:
| Original | Google/YouTube |
|---|---|
| Now, we want change | We’re going to change |
| It’ll never happen | Yeah |
| I no longer believe the future is in our hands | I mean he thinks is enough |
| I know the media can control us | I knew the meetings’s collapse |
| It’s just not the case that we have a real choice in this election | It’s just not the case real choice incident |
| Instead we have to vote the way we’re told | He said we have to think that way this time |
| No longer do I believe things can be different | You know what it’s like to be seems to be different |
| Vote for change and you waste your vote | They’ve changed at least, thanks |
| Vote for a party you don’t really believe in | They affect us today |
| This is how things have to be | The southeast |
| I don’t accept that a third party could win | I think it sets a sense posturing |
| More and more people are realising that politicians are more powerful than the people | More and more people in real life, Clinton since and powerful the people |
| But what if we could turn things upside down? | But what if we could send things upside down? |
| The people are more powerful than politicians | The people, almost half of those positions |
| More and more people are realising that a third party could win | More and more people realizing that that cost thing |
| I don’t accept that this is how things have to be | I can accept this is how things be |
| Vote for a party you don’t really believe in and you waste your vote | The effect on Saturday the the make sure things |
| Vote for change | Things have changed |
| I believe things can be different | I don’t think so |
| No longer do we have to vote the way we’re told | You don’t have to be that the women’s health |
| Instead we have a real choice in this election | Instead of the UN to lift the sanctions |
| It’s just not the case that the media can control us | It’s just not the case at least told us |
| I know the future is in our hands | Pointed he can’t do not |
| I no longer believe it’ll never happen | You know |
| We want change | He hasn’t changed |
| Now | Yeah |
It’s quite shockingly bad, isn’t it?
I have a suspicion that it might have been designed primarily for American English, but I guess the background music didn’t make it easier for the program, either.
I’m very happy I don’t have to rely on those subtitles just yet!