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Video Captions/Subtitles: What do they do right and wrong? What are the best examples you've seen? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Films and TV shows and more often have subtitles, which are helpful for enjoying muted video, translation, people with hearing impairment, people struggling to understand accents, checking fast unclear dialogue and other reasons. They are important, and sometimes it's clear when they do something right or wrong.

Maybe we can't expect them all to be works of art, but there are certainly some easy wins even in the industrial media environment. What do you think?

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

May be a small one, but a big pet peeve of mine with captions/subtitles is when they don't put the exact spoken words into text, like when they shorthand a phrase or change up the wording a bit so it uses less typed characters/words. Idk why, it just bugs me a bit cause it's not what they said.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I believe sometimes it's done because there's a lot to read and it might be (considered) too hard to read in real time. Which I understand, but it also annoys me too. It's not what they said, and sometimes the way someone phrases something is important even if they don't cut out important information, it can hint at their character or their emotion.