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    From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to All on Sun Dec 31 16:10:18 2023
    I don't know if the auto-generated subtitles are generated anew whenever
    you ask for them, so this may vary for you, but I've just turned them on
    for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCRtT6_UIQ, and got the most
    hilarious random collection of words (and other things).
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    Illinc fui et illud feci, habe tunicam?

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to J. P. Gilliver on Sun Dec 31 17:24:34 2023
    On 12/31/23 10:10, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    I don't know if the auto-generated subtitles are generated anew whenever
    you ask for them, so this may vary for you, but I've just turned them on
    for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCRtT6_UIQ, and got the most
    hilarious random collection of words (and other things).

    Auto subs are generally not the best.
    --
    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Jan 1 03:36:37 2024
    In message <umst7i$1sitj$[email protected]> at Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:24:34, candycanearter07 <[email protected]> writes
    On 12/31/23 10:10, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    I don't know if the auto-generated subtitles are generated anew
    whenever you ask for them, so this may vary for you, but I've just
    turned them on for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCRtT6_UIQ, and
    got the most hilarious random collection of words (and other things).

    Auto subs are generally not the best.

    No (especially if they're doing autotranslate at the same time). But I
    can usually see/hear where they're getting what they're showing; for the
    above, it seemed to be totally random, sometimes comically so.

    I've just tried it again, and it remains ... well, for example, I just
    hit pause at 0:35, and am seeing:

    "mustang test items couple right arm split boulevard living circle is
    fire
    summit erase what this is doing long time fred"

    - and listening to the soundtrack (I can hear what he's saying fine -
    nothing wrong with my hearing when it comes to speech; I just sometimes
    put subtitles on so I can pay less attention), I can't relate _any_ of
    it to what he's saying.
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    You can tell that you are getting old when typing VCR into a document [results that the spell checker] wants to change it to Vicar.
    - Brian Gaff in uk.tech.broadcast, 2016-3-6

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  • From candycanearter07@21:1/5 to J. P. Gilliver on Tue Jan 2 17:54:25 2024
    On 12/31/23 21:36, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    In message <umst7i$1sitj$[email protected]> at Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:24:34, candycanearter07 <[email protected]> writes
    On 12/31/23 10:10, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    I don't know if the auto-generated subtitles are generated anew
    whenever  you ask for them, so this may vary for you, but I've just
    turned them on  for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCRtT6_UIQ, and
    got the most  hilarious random collection of words (and other things).

    Auto subs are generally not the best.

    No (especially if they're doing autotranslate at the same time). But I
    can usually see/hear where they're getting what they're showing; for the above, it seemed to be totally random, sometimes comically so.

    I've just tried it again, and it remains ... well, for example, I just
    hit pause at 0:35, and am seeing:

    Auto-subtitles are generated on video upload and never change, I think.

    "mustang test items couple right arm split boulevard living circle is fire summit erase what this is doing long time fred"

    - and listening to the soundtrack (I can hear what he's saying fine -
    nothing wrong with my hearing when it comes to speech; I just sometimes
    put subtitles on so I can pay less attention), I can't relate _any_ of
    it to what he's saying.

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    user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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  • From Eli the Bearded@21:1/5 to J. P. Gilliver on Wed Jan 3 00:40:09 2024
    In comp.internet.services.video.youtube,
    J. P. Gilliver <[email protected]> wrote:
    I don't know if the auto-generated subtitles are generated anew whenever

    I suspect generated once and saved.

    Here's a video with fun hand-generated subtitles:

    https://youtu.be/B7UmUX68KtE

    "Füür måkkïn dê pöpcørn!"

    Elijah
    ------
    there are two Ks in knucklehead

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  • From Gordinator@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 15 12:17:01 2024
    On 31/12/2023 23:24, candycanearter07 wrote:
    On 12/31/23 10:10, J. P. Gilliver wrote:
    I don't know if the auto-generated subtitles are generated anew
    whenever you ask for them, so this may vary for you, but I've just
    turned them on for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCRtT6_UIQ, and
    got the most hilarious random collection of words (and other things).

    Auto subs are generally not the best.

    As someone who relies on subtitles and is therefore, shall we say,
    'familiar' with the automatically generated ones, I can confirm the
    following:

    1. They used to be *really bad*, but they've improved a lot. I imagine
    the amount of training data in the form of YouTube videos with manually
    added subtitles helped here.

    2. They are not generated on-the-fly, and are instead generated when the
    video is processing. This means you get the same subtitles every time.
    For whatever reason, YouTube prefers to do this thing where each word is
    shown as it is spoken, which no-one else does.

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