• Re: OT: More fun with subtitles

    From Davey@davey@example.invalid to uk.tech.digital-tv on Mon Jun 2 12:21:22 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.tech.digital-tv

    On Mon, 19 May 2025 08:22:40 +0100
    Woody <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote:

    On Sun 18/05/2025 23:13, JMB99 wrote:
    On 18/05/2025 20:20, NY wrote:
    I am always surprised at the number of pre-recorded items (eg news
    reports, excluding live satellite reports) which seem to be
    subtitled during broadcast so the subtitles lag the pictures by
    several seconds.

    Anything where people are speaking words that have been written in
    advance can use that script to generate the subtitles. That
    applies both to a news report where the reporter and editor work
    together to time the script to the pictures, and to studio
    presenters reading the words off the autocue.

    You can always tell subtitles which are generated on the fly
    because they appear one word at a time rather than one
    sentence/phrase at a time.




    I thought that a lot of subtitles were prepared in advance then
    recalled when used.



    As far as I know, most live news subtitles are machine generated.
    Hence why you sometimes get rubbish which is manually corrected a
    second or two later by human intervention.



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