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Youtube caption fail

Skyfall — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:10:51 +0000

I was really looking forward to the inclusion of automatic captioning from Youtube, it seemed like a really easy way of providing information to deaf people and really giving more of a sense of completion to my videos. However, the whole system hinges on the accuracy of Youtube/Google’s voice recognition software. A few of my videos have been transcribed and by god they are terrible!

Not a single video transcribed is anywhere near accurate, I think there was one sentence in all of the videos I have checked that were slightly correct. Most of the text is complete gibberish and seemingly completely unrelated to the audio on the video. I assumed that as they are introducing this system to millions and millions of videos it would at least be half competent but I don’t even think that you could refer to it as speech “recognition” it’s more like a complete guess.

It’s and F to Google, please try harder.

Youtube add “chronolinks” to comments

Skyfall — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:28:53 +0000

ok, so I made the term “chronolinks” up but it makes sense. Anyway, it seems Youtube have cottoned on to the fact that people are always commenting “look at 1:56 it’s a pie” or somesuch, and now processes that into a link (example below). Once clicked the link jumps to that point in the video you are in. Not exactly revolutionary or a feature I thought I needed, but it works The change is retroactive too so any old posts where someone mentions a time will be clickable too.

Sadly they still haven’t perfected that “stupidity filter”.

Big ball knockouts

Skyfall — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:09:58 +0000

Had to share it;