Posted on 08/31/2017 8:24:51 AM PDT by impetrio1
Closed captioning is a wonderful tool for the hearing impaired and those of us who covered the Hillary campaign but just didn't want to hear her voice. It's an automated system, clearly at the mercy of the tone and syntax of the person speaking. Sometimes words are mangled, sometimes the interpretation is way off, and in some cases the misinterpretation has a deep sense of irony.
Such an occurrence happened during President Trump's speech on Tax Reform in Springfield, Missouri; captured for all posterity on CSPAN's closed captioning system.
(Excerpt) Read more at blackandblondemedia.com ...
Doesn’t happen here in Houston. No captioning, just some clown waving his arms all over the place.
Her real name, so what’s the problem?
I was once working out in the gym, using captions on the TV, and they said that to lose weight, women should eat ‘small, sporadic males’.
I had to stop the treadmill, I couldn’t laugh that hard and run at the same time...
It's not an automated system. The errors are typically typographical in nature. It's very difficult to capture verbatim and in real time people speaking well over 200 words per minute with a variety of accents and speech patterns, not to mention their interrupting and continuously speaking over each other.
A fine example of a typographical stenotype error.
PHAELZ = males
PHAOELZ = meals
LOL, thanks! So President Obama is saying that if you need to walk your dog, please bring a pooper-scooper, or at least that’s my interpretation.
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