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Subject: Re: Why I have so much trouble hearing dialogue
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:57:30 -0400
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On 2025-04-24 10:13 AM, suzeeq wrote:
> On 4/23/2025 11:34 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYJtb2YXae8
>>
>> It's complicated! Hear from a professional editor.
>>
> 
> I've taken to leaving the close captions on for everything. Except for 
> those shows where it doesn't sync.

I'll put captions on sometimes too but it amuses (and concerns) me 
sometimes how mistaken they are. Whoever writes them seems to just be 
listening to them in real time and then writing down what they think 
they heard rather than consulting the script or even using common sense.

I wish I could think of a concrete example but I'm drawing a blank at 
the moment. Nevertheless, the captions ARE wrong sometimes. Mind you, 
the ones done by the studio for a streamed show or theatrical movie are 
pretty much always right; it's more a case of AI-based captioning, like 
what YouTube uses, that's pretty iffy.

-- 
Rhino