You are absolutely right. My bad. I do not know why it is called that and the link I posted sheds not one spark of light on that particular, specific question. The only thing my link shows is that it IS called that. Which is the point I wanted to make: boxing IS called “the sweet sport” for reasons we will probably never know the answer to. You are to be congratulated for such a close reading of my posts. Often I wonder if people even read my posts.
Having been so imprecise, for penance I will now flog myself for an hour with a handful of wet noodles (per Dear Abby). And then eat them with chili crisp.
We watch a lot of British (and other Commonwealth) shows with captions. It’s clear on many of them that the closed captions come from the scripts. So you’ll sometimes see an actor switch up a word or phrase. (And once in a while two sentences get swapped.)
Scripts are already on a computer. The only work is setting the timing. It’s simpler for a computer to sync up the script text than it is to do speech-to-text and then sync up.
If someone is doing pure speech-to-text to generate captions for a recently produced show they are Doing It Wrong.
Eh. . . yeeeah. . . no. Saw every post, but you apparently didn’t understand mine, and, admittedly, I see it could should have had a little more expository info, but that’s OK. But that’s quite all right. . . not into equine corpse desecration.
We do, too, and I’m actually surprised at how good most of the captioning is. One thing that’s nice is that if the person is not on camera when they’re speaking, the closed captions will indicate who’s speaking. I imagine that could be confusing for a deaf person if the actor on screen is not talking but captions indicate something being said. Plus with more than two actors involved, how do you know which non-seen actor is speaking?
I wish I could remember what the captioning got wrong on what we were watching last night. It was something like the speaker mentioned a specific piece of furniture, like an armoire, but the caption showed it generically as “furniture.” It was weird.
For me: singers and actors. I got Entertainment Weekly magazine for years and years, around the time the Twilight movies came out, the ‘celebrities’ on the cover (and People magazine, too) became unrecognizable to me. I live in my little old-folks bubble now and am happy enough to not have to know what a Dua Lipa is, or. how to tell one little brown mouse of an actress from another.
I’d love to know how expensive this process is, that they can’t afford someone who would spend an hour or two reviewing that stuff in the post-production stage. They’ll spend millions on special effects and top-name actors, but not a couple of hundred on the captioning?
I just turned captions off on Endeavour because Thursday was ‘like a bagman’ instead of ‘light’. First show I’ve fired up on BritBox since posting and 20 minutes in. Certainly not the most egregious example but someone running their eyes over the computer generated captions would find those nonsensical moments. They don’t need to watch the show to do it. It isn’t a particularly old show, they aren’t using the scripts.
I think it’s because “rock” in new forms, really doesn’t exist at this time. It’s all pop, r&b, rap, metal (an off shoot or rock but arguable not the rock we’re discussing) punk probably as close to rock as you get without good instrumentation. Rock for now anyway (accept for old bands still performing) is either dead or waiting to come back. I really hope the latter.
I don’t get the interest in, “True Crime”, Ugh. I hate that stuff especially how it’s presented on certain networks: “But did she?” Said in a sepulchral voice. Over dramatized, dirty linen, pearl clutching, greed, blah blah on and on. I really hate it. My daughter insists on telling me grim stories of child abuse, murder, mayhem. Ugh. I don’t wanna’ hear it and I don’t get why anyone does.
Try checking your TV or soundbar audio controls for sound leveling or dialogue settings (TVs call the latter a lot of different things: Dialogue, News, Speech Boost. If those are not available, Movie or Night Mode is the next best option). Also, disabling audio enhancements like Bass Boost or Surround can help since extra bass can cause dialogue to be harder to understand.
Oh, man, my sister used to watch those, and I’d just say “the husband did it,” because in 99% of the shows he did…no matter how hard they tried to disguise it. One ep nearly fooled me, and I was thinking “Huh, maybe the husband didn’t do it.” Nope. He did it.
But, yeah, those shows are boring, and the people are stupid. Not my idea of entertainment.
Something I used to get but don’t get anymore.
Driving where there are pedestrians, with the car windows open and the music loud enough for everyone to hear.
I guess I thought that they would be impressed with me because of my music tastes, or something like that.
(Mostly) women with omnipresent waterbottles in the office/mall/school/uni…
… you are not going to die of dehydration in this 60 min meeting, believe me
how did we all survive before this trend cought on some 10 years ago?
As father of 3 teenage daughters, I drag obscene amounts of half-empty bottles out of our car … mostly from our 20 min ride between house and school (both of which have on-demand-water coming out of the walls in selected places, aka faucets).