#auto-captions

[lifewithchronicpain]

Here is Danny letting me know on no uncertain terms that he is hungry.

I posted this to the foster fb so I could let the shelter know he’s doing well without pestering with an email. Auto-generated captions were on and it not only captioned me but the TV quite incorrectly that this happened:

That last line is a commercial where a girl is asking the square root of pie 😆

[outofcontextdanandphil]

"My favorite fruit is Phil" ok gay boy

[yank-a-ton]

Commission for @despitethecold!

[argentinagp]

Franco Colapinto: 10 objetos sin los que no puede vivir | 10 Esenciales | GQ España

[bolt-x0]

WELCOME TO GRANDMAS WHOREHOUSE

[grelleswife]

Not even a former assassin is immune to Miri’s potent Cold Hands Attack!

Source

[swordsonnet]

i did not have "james somerton stealing the title for his second apology video from hbomberguy" on my 2024 bingo card

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Six minutes of marine biologists geeking out over seeing live nautiluses on the sea floor

Nothing more wholesome, in my opinion, than scientist joy:

[coeurdeverre82]

john cale plays satie's vexations on i've got a secret sep 16 1963

cale had recently participated in an 18h40m concert organized by john cage, in which the piece was repeated 840x (as notated on satie's original 1893 manuscript) by a team of 11 pianists playing in 20min shifts

The piece bears the inscription "In order to play the motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities." ("Pour se jouer 840 fois de suite ce motif, il sera bon de se préparer au préalable, et dans le plus grand silence, par des immobilités sérieuses.") From the 1960s onward, this text has mostly been interpreted as an instruction that the page of music should be played 840 times, although this may not have been Satie's intention. (wiki)

The EEG of the pianist Armin Fuchs recorded during the 28 hours he played the Vexations led researchers to conclude that a trance cannot be avoided when keeping scrupulously to Satie's instructions. (youtube)

Consistent among both witnesses and performers are reports of the piece’s mystical effects. Pianists say there is something about Satie’s fiendish notation that makes the brief line impossible to memorize. Even after hundreds of repetitions, players are forced to sight-read from the beginning, as if learning for the first time. Witnesses have reported a similar effect. Listeners that subject themselves to the unnerving melody for several hours still find themselves incapable of humming it.

Those who sit for all eight hundred and forty repetitions tend to agree on a common sequence of reactive stages: fascination morphs into agitation, which gradually morphs into all-encompassing agony. But listeners who withstand that phase enter a state of deep tranquility. “Vexations” veterans often say that reëntry into the natural world is thrilling because they are able to hear sound as if for the very first time. Of course, not everyone gets there. An Australian pianist named Peter Evans abandoned a 1970 solo performance after five hundred and ninety-five repetitions because he claimed he was being overtaken by evil thoughts and noticed strange creatures emerging from the sheet music. “People who play it do so at their own peril,” he said afterward. (new yorker)

[tuttle-did-it]

PSA FROM EXHAUSTION.

Signed up for a series of online lectures. Couldn't understand a word, couldn't lip-read speaker (which is very difficult anyway). Couldn't participate, couldn't engage, couldn't understand. Had to leave because it didn't even occur to them to put captions on

Folks, if you are posting ANY video online or send it to another human, please enable captions/subtitles.

Deaf people need captions

Hard of hearing people need captions

People with audio processing conditions need captions

People with ADHD often need captions to maintain attention

People who are not native speakers of the primary language need captions

People who are watching something in a private space and are not able to watch with volume need captions

People with learning difficulties/differences/disabilities need captions

People trying to watch something with bad audio recording need captions

People who have migraines/headaches and really can't deal with sound but still need to watch the video (for whatever reason) need captions

People who have colds/ear infections/went to a concert without ear protection and have bad tinnitus need captions

People who are very new to a topic need captions

People who are multi-tasking need captions

people with misophonia need captions

People who are neurospicy and just need fucking captions need fucking caption

People need captions.

And, whilst I have your attention, don't just use autocraptions from the computer that only get about 65%. I mean, look-- I'll take auto craptions over nothing, but there is a reason deaf people cal them 'craptions.' We hate them, it's very often word salad, and it's just useless. You can process the video through with autocraptions, and then go in and make corrections where the craptions got it wrong. And, if you feel super fancy, you could even put in things like full stops and commas to make it easier to read.

Also, when captioning, please put actions/reactions in brackets. Anything off screen, any noises we may not be able to hear. Examples: [Audience cheers] [Explosion off screen, people shouting] [sound of phone ringing.]

If something is inaudible or the sound does not catch what they said, please signify this. If it's a montage and there's music with no dialogue, say this. Examples:

[Mulcahy speaks indistinctly.]

[inaudible]

[audio cuts out]

[no audio, no music]

[music- Sinatra' song (song) plays; no audible dialogue or sound from scenes]

[dialogue from film 'My Darling Clementine' plays in background whilst Hawkeye whistles]

[music is interrupted by the sound of a record being ripped or pulled off a record]

If you just feel REALLY generous to the audience and really want me to love you, please feel free to put tone that I might miss, such as [Hawkeye whispers] or [Klinger shouts]. Maybe it's visible on the screen from expressions/body language, maybe not.

Hawkeye: [imitates Groucho] Hello, Room Service? Send up a larger room.

Hawkeye [imitates British accent:] [drops accent]

And, when there may be confusion on when characters are speaking. Examples:

[Multiple characters talk at once.]

Potter: [speaks dialogue from 'My Darling Clementine' at the same time as a character in the film]:

Margaret [interrupts Frank]:

Hawkeye and BJ [speaking together:]

Also also, if there are multiple speakers, please show this. [speaker 1: ] [Speaker 2]:

Even if you don't receive a request from anyone to put on captions, please just add captions. Simple accessibility considerations, please. Some people don't even realise they need captions until they see then and go 'oh, yay. Captions.'

I know it may take a little bit of time and planning, but there are more of us out there than you realise. So please, just add captions.

If you ever doubt how important captions might be to someone, sometime just put on a video. Put on an episode of a show you haven't seen before. Mute it, watch it with no captions. See just how much you manage to get without ANY captions.

CAPTIONS.

CAPTIONS.

[outofcontextdanandphil]

Hand size comparison

[therandomtoad]

Something something Wiggly brought Max back as a plaything and traded one toy for another

Also

[leavemeuntold]

i cannot make this up

[firstkanaphans]

Inn with his kids! My favorite part is the phantom hand that keeps drifting in and out of frame. Tie, we see you.

[opalescentstag]

hear me out... these two but stobotnik

[phanomenology]

do you understand.

im asking you DO YOU UNDERSTAND??!