The Duke of Sausage - tell us about subtitle blue purse

[DickyC]

When Prince Harry settled out of court the other day, the BBC subtitles decided he was the Duke of Sausage and I decided we need a thread. Unfortunately I was too slow to catch a picture.

This was on MSN News earlier about buying a British sportscar at a reasonable price.

[Starfighter]

Isn’t that Jack / Number 27?

[vixen1700]

I've read and re-read this, and looked at the picture and read the title.

I still don't understand.



Edited to say, the penny has now dropped!

Edited by vixen1700 on Monday 27th January 16:41

[DickyC]

vixen1700 said:

I've read and re-read this, and looked at the picture and read the title.

I still don't understand.

I was too slow to catch a picture of the Prince Harry/Duke of Sausage subtitle blooper.

But I thought subtitle bloopers might be a good subject for a thread.

As I didn't catch the Duke of Sausage, I posted a different subtitle blooper.

Subtitle bloopers. Subtitle blue purse.

[vixen1700]

Got it, just before you explained it.

[lornemalvo]

Perhaps the person who does the BBC subtitles has a sense of humour

[DickyC]

lornemalvo said:

Perhaps the person who does the BBC subtitles has a sense of humour

Could be.

[Mr Pointy]

You wouldn't believe how hard it is to do live subtitling.

[DickyC]

Mr Pointy said:

You wouldn't believe how hard it is to do live subtitling.

Is it automated as much as possible with operators catching and correcting mistakes?

I remember a report on a hurricane that came on just after a football feature and the subtitles kept saying Harry Kane. It was as if the programme had learned a new interpretation and defaulted to that.

[sunbeam alpine]

Watching Goodwood meetings via Youtube provides an excellent source of bloopers. It's obviously fully automatic - and as another poster said - very difficlut to do real-time.

[skyebear]

Dragons' Den on YouTube. Subtitles for "Theo Paphitis" are "Theo the foetus".

Bit of a meme apparently so may be widely known.

[MiniMan64]

Isn’t it automated now like subtitles on YouTube?

[ShredderXLE]

He's got an RC10, wonder if its an original or re-re

[LemonParty]

DickyC said:

Is it automated as much as possible with operators catching and correcting mistakes?.

Nope - it's subtitlers who are watching the programme and speaking the words back in to special voice recognition software, with a partner correcting mistakes as close to real time as possible

[DickyC]

LemonParty said:

DickyC said:

Is it automated as much as possible with operators catching and correcting mistakes?.

Nope - it's subtitlers who are watching the programme and speaking the words back in to special voice recognition software, with a partner correcting mistakes as close to real time as possible

The worst job imaginable for me. I'd be lost halfway through the first sentence.

The voice recognition software is some way off listening to umpteen different speakers on news programmes, presumably. Does having one speaker give it a better chance?

[Mr Pointy]

DickyC said:

LemonParty said:

DickyC said:

Is it automated as much as possible with operators catching and correcting mistakes?.

Nope - it's subtitlers who are watching the programme and speaking the words back in to special voice recognition software, with a partner correcting mistakes as close to real time as possible

The worst job imaginable for me. I'd be lost halfway through the first sentence.

The voice recognition software is some way off listening to umpteen different speakers on news programmes, presumably. Does having one speaker give it a better chance?

Yes, it can be trained to the voices & the parameters for each operator are stored & recalled. They also speak in a very clear & distinct manner - you can imagine what would happen if someone with a heavy accent tried the job. For the broadcasters it's very important as subtitles (& maybe Audio Description) are the only legally mandated element they must broadcast. You can drop the video or sound, but not the subtitles.

[DickyC]

The things that go on that I know nothing about.

[NDA]