{"id":2421,"date":"2010-05-23T22:09:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2421"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:09:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T21:09:46","slug":"automatic-subtitles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/automatic-subtitles\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic subtitles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the election campaign, I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.widmann.org.uk\/2010\/05\/turn-things-upside-down\/\">blog posting about an uplifting video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, I discovered that YouTube are testing automatic subtitles, i.e., speech recognition, and that it was available for this video.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s is my transcription of the video, together with YouTube\/Google&#8217;s take on it:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Original<\/th>\n<th>Google\/YouTube<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Now, we want change<\/td>\n<td>We&#8217;re going to change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>It&#8217;ll never happen<\/td>\n<td>Yeah<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I no longer believe the future is in our hands<\/td>\n<td>I mean he thinks is enough<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I know the media can control us<\/td>\n<td>I knew the meetings&#8217;s collapse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>It&#8217;s just not the case that we have a real choice in this election<\/td>\n<td>It&#8217;s just not the case real choice incident<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Instead we have to vote the way we&#8217;re told<\/td>\n<td>He said we have to think that way this time<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No longer do I believe things can be different<\/td>\n<td>You know what it&#8217;s like to be seems to be different<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vote for change and you waste your vote<\/td>\n<td>They&#8217;ve changed at least, thanks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vote for a party you don&#8217;t really believe in<\/td>\n<td>They affect us today<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>This is how things have to be<\/td>\n<td>The southeast<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I don&#8217;t accept that a third party could win<\/td>\n<td>I think it sets a sense posturing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>More and more people are realising that politicians are more powerful than the people<\/td>\n<td>More and more people in real life, Clinton since and powerful the people<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>But what if we could turn things upside down?<\/td>\n<td>But what if we could send things upside down?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The people are more powerful than politicians<\/td>\n<td>The people, almost half of those positions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>More and more people are realising that a third party could win<\/td>\n<td>More and more people realizing that that cost thing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I don&#8217;t accept that this is how things have to be<\/td>\n<td>I can accept this is how things be<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vote for a party you don&#8217;t really believe in and you waste your vote<\/td>\n<td>The effect on Saturday the the make sure things<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vote for change<\/td>\n<td>Things have changed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I believe things can be different<\/td>\n<td>I don&#8217;t think so<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No longer do we have to vote the way we&#8217;re told<\/td>\n<td>You don&#8217;t have to be that the women&#8217;s health<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Instead we have a real choice in this election<\/td>\n<td>Instead of the UN to lift the sanctions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>It&#8217;s just not the case that the media can control us<\/td>\n<td>It&#8217;s just not the case at least told us<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I know the future is in our hands<\/td>\n<td>Pointed he can&#8217;t do not<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>I no longer believe it&#8217;ll never happen<\/td>\n<td>You know<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>We want change<\/td>\n<td>He hasn&#8217;t changed<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Now<\/td>\n<td>Yeah<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite shockingly bad, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>I have a suspicion that it might have been designed primarily for American English, but I guess the background music didn&#8217;t make it easier for the program, either.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy I don&#8217;t have to rely on those subtitles just yet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s is my transcription of the video, together with YouTube\/Google&#8217;s take on it: Original Google\/YouTube Now, we want change We&#8217;re going to change It&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,114,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-computing","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}