Friday, February 07, 2014

Computer says...

My hearing isn't what it was, and so I find subtitles a boon, but I usually only have them on for films and such, where they are prerecorded.  Even so, they sometimes come up with amusing mistakes, but for really hilarious blunders you need to have them on for the news, where they are computer generated in real time using voice recognition software.  And you get howlers like the Leader of the Opposition coming up as "Ed Miller Band", and the Leader of the Church of England as "The Archbitch of Canterbury", but a recent one which has had people in hysterics was when the celebrations for Chinese New Year were subtitled as welcoming in "the year of the whores"!  Keep 'em coming, says I.

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