Voice Recognition

[Sockpuppet]

Inspired by RH....

http://forums.contractoruk.com/426163-post8.html


Don't know if its a built into the TV thing but the TV here in the canteen has teletext style subtitles on all the time. The main problem is that they look like they were typed by a 5 year old.

Have they really done away with the people that type them real time (this is BBC News 24) and gone with speech recognition.

[threaded]

You ought to see "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" with Danish subtitles.

'Bizarre' doesn't quite cover it.

[ladymuck]

I think they are still being done real time but just by five year olds who have been hit with the stupid stick

[darmstadt]

Over in the USA, when you're in bars, hotels, airports, etc and the TV's are showing news channels they all have these subtitles as normally the sound is turned off and sometimes its a real bugger trying to work out what the story is about.