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Post by chrisnh on Jan 30, 2009 21:08:13 GMT -5
At the health club I go to, the plasma TVs hung in front of the cardio equipment are tuned to various channels...Fox 25 on one, WBZ on another, Channel 7 on a 3rd. If you're at the health club after work, you're probably staring at the various news broadcasts. On our TVs, the closed captions are running, so you can 'keep up' with the news even if you're listening to your iPod.
So, WHO is running this stuff? If humans are involved, they are grade-school kids: 'Bruins' comes across as 'Brewens.' Angelina Jolie comes across as Angelina 'Jelly.' On and on and on...amoeba-like intelligence if humans are involved. I'll go out on a limb and say humans aren't involved. To reduce even further ridicule aimed at the laughable local TV news industry, I sure hope so.
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Post by rbreton on Jan 30, 2009 22:06:56 GMT -5
From wikipedia:
For live programs, spoken words comprising the television program's soundtrack are transcribed by a human operator (a Speech-to-Text Reporter) using stenotype or stenomask type of machines, whose phonetic output is instantly translated into text by a computer and displayed on the screen. This technique was developed in the 1970s as an initiative of the BBC's Ceefax teletext service.
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Post by chrisnh on Jan 31, 2009 7:08:53 GMT -5
OK...it's 'human error.' I'm at the same time surprised and not surprised. I didn't think there was a person on this planet who thought that 'Angelina Jolie' was really 'Angelina Jelly.' But I guess Channel 7 found that person.
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Post by spilot113 on Feb 1, 2009 18:23:28 GMT -5
OK...it's 'human error.' I'm at the same time surprised and not surprised. I didn't think there was a person on this planet who thought that 'Angelina Jolie' was really ' Angelina Jelly.' But I guess Channel 7 found that person. One of the things you have to realize about real time closed-captioning is that the person typing has to type very fast (i.e..wicked fast!) what they hear. They are not transcribing from a script. They transcribe what they hear...and have to type almost faster than their brain can process. Sometimes they have to type a word before they know the rest of the sentence and the context. So, piccalilli may come out like Pickle Lilly. It's one of the the problems with live shows and real-time closed captioning that you don't see in prerecorded shows. What you may find interesting is that the person doing real-time typing may be in Minnesota...or someplace, simply listening to an audio feed. With all the modern technology, they don't have to be at the station. I know WGBH does a lot of contract work for closed catpioning. I don't know if they do any real-time/live stuff....or even do it from their headquarters in Massachusetts. |
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Post by the guy on Feb 4, 2009 10:34:57 GMT -5
chrisnh
do you work in television? radio? or are you a tv fan, maybe a student, that posts in these forums?
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