28-09-2022, 07:19 PM
(28-09-2022, 07:00 PM)Steve in Pudsey Wrote: Are the subtitles not done by somebody (who has trained the software to recognise their voice accurately) respeaking rather than direct speech recognition?
News subtitling certainly was done via revoicing (rather than stenography or automatic speech recognition) and I don't recall hearing of any change. I believe the rationale has always been that news programming involves a lot of unusual and uncommon words (particularly foreign names and places) which automatic systems find much harder to deal with.
For anybody interested, here's a segment from See Hear about how BBC subtitling is done - showing subtitling (via revoicing) for the News Channel circa 2011.
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