…The gym I go to has a bank of TVs in front of the cardio machines. They are all on different channels, and the closed captioning is turned on.
The thing is, sometimes (especially on the news), some gibberish-like stuff flows through, either misspellings or words substituted for other words. (I can’t think of any specific examples, but it would be something like, the word “historic” reading as “hip storage”. There is not much room in my mind for the concept that a service for people who have hearing problems might be this sloppy. It actually kinda bugs me. I hate thinking about it, and I sometimes hate the fact that my mind is wired in such a way that this will bother me until I find out why these frequent, horrible mistakes continue.
Do voice-recognition programs type that stuff up now, or is there someone in a big hurry during live broadcasts who may not be listening very well? (The former is easier to believe than the latter… I can’t imagine misspelling and misrepresenting ths spoken word so blatantly, no matter how much of a hurry I was in.) Anybody got the straight dope on this?