Fun With Captions

As some of you may know, YouTube is rolling out a new feature that uses an automated speech-to-text program to provide closed captioning on videos, with predictably hilarious results. I thought it would be fun to see what some of those mangled captions would sound like if spoken out loud. Some liberties have been taken to form something vaguely resembling coherent sentences.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• youtube
• poop
• closed
• caption
• speech-to-text
• wtf
• abridged
• series

[Shinigami1300]

Can someone please tell me how it transcribed "What news! Little offerings attract other lawyers but that of blood" (or something like that) into "hello" XD

[hbi2k]

All the audio processing I place over Dornkirk's voice (and probably the silly accent, too) seems to confuse it. Half the time it doesn't seem to recognize that it's a human voice at all.

[FluffyBunniesOnFire]

YouTube has just become a surreal place for deaf people to go.

[JanakLegion]

These captions come from the VEAS Episode 20

[JackSavid]

My brother is under me constantly so it's only a matter of time *pause

cause that's how we did her! ---where did that one come from? lol

[greendisease29]

everytime the girl cursed it said jackstraw

[Lulzman69]

"All from the employer jobs" ------> paula jones

[PlaidMutineer]

Hysterical. Was the Apple Juice bit a side-reference to Dayjob Orchestra's Star Trek re-dubs, or is that just a common anomaly of bad speech-to-text?

[Inthehahsia]

I actually went to the original VEAS and turned on the transcribe audio. Now I know where you got the script.

[bub777]

You had me at "From what I know about the air"!

[sasuke664]

captions are gettihng good now it can read most of what you say now

[TFichVe]

Turning on the captions on this video mocking the captions is hilarious too. What a weird feature.

[myshirtgoeswtf]

Why yes, Dornkirk, I would love some of your special apple juice!

I love Dornkirk's voice, so silly and lovable. XD