Re: Proto-Romance

Roger Mills wrote:

> Evidently, for live shows like newscasts and CNN's day-long stuff, there is
> someone typing in the spoken words as fast as they can (I suppose rather
> like a court reporter)---- and, quite often,  not very accurately-- I've
> seen some real howlers, but alas, failed to note them for posterity.  During
> the current hearings on CNN, I'll have to put my set on mute and see how the
> subtitles fare...{evil grin}
With some of the kinds of mistakes that are made, I've often wondered if
they're using something like voice recognition software; they're not the
kind of mistakes you'd expect a live person to make. But there could
also be some garbling in the system -- I often see pairs of two letetrs
repepted, for instance.

> Presumably scripted shows fare better.  Well, actually, maybe not-- I recall
> that at a gym I used to go to, subtitles for the soap "Passions" and
> intervening commercials were often just as screwy as the CNN feed on the
> neighboring TV
I've seen bad closed caption subtitles even on DVD's, where presumably
they'd have time to edit them -- or just take the regular DVD subtitles
and make closed captions out of them. But of course they're still better
than the ones on the live shows (which it's amazing that they manage to
translate in real time at all).

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