The joys of subtitles

[LMcD]

During today's Wigmore Hall programme 'the Carducci Quartet' came out as 'that car be cheap for tat'.
One advantage of subtitles is that classical music that features in dramas is often identified, which is very welcome if I can't show off to the lady wife by immediately identifying the piece in question. Muffled dialogue and the 'other half' of telephone conversations are also shown on screen.

[Dave2002]

Some of the voice to text generators used by some live sites generate very odd and amusing phrases. I would expect an organisation like the BBC to be able to correct obvious subtitle errors - for example by manual corrections - but maybe they "can't get the staff these days"!

[Nick Armstrong]

During today's Wigmore Hall programme 'the Carducci Quartet' came out as 'that car be cheap for tat'.

That’s child’s play compared with the subtitler’s ignorance of Ms Panufnik:






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[LMcD]

That’s child’s play compared with the subtitler’s ignorance of Ms Panufnik:






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[Leinster Lass]

One of my UK correspondents tells me that at one point the subtitles on the BBC TV news this morning recommended that people wishing to play their part in observing Remembrance Day download a puppy and place it in their window. This presumably requires a very advanced model of 3-D printer.

[Pianorak]

Pavel Kolesnikov was transformed into Pavel Kalashnikov at his recent Wigmore Hall recital.

[Serial_Apologist]

Pavel Kolesnikov was transformed into Pavel Kalashnikov at his recent Wigmore Hall recital.

Someone must have been gunning for him!

[Dave2002]

Many subtitles seem to be generated automatically nowadays by some form of speech recognition and transcription. The results sometimes are hilarious - as noticed. I really liked the Roxanna Panufnik one - but I've seen several similar others in some of the Zoom meetings and presentations we've been following during the last few months.

[Serial_Apologist]

Not exactly subtitles, but BBC Sounds tracklisting for Radio 6 Music's Halloween night Freakzone Playlist
listed a piece by an appropriately (mis)named female composer...

Wonderfully inappropriate!!!

I was thinking of All Hallows' Eve!

[Dave2002]

Many subtitles seem to be generated automatically nowadays by some form of speech recognition and transcription. The results sometimes are hilarious - as noticed. I really liked the Roxanna Panufnik one - but I've seen several similar others in some of the Zoom meetings and presentations we've been following during the last few months.

Here is a recent Premiere by the real Roxanna Panufnik - https://youtu.be/dHfB4A22TmM

[LezLee]

I always liked:-
'Much of Lincolnshire is shrouded in a dangerous dog'

[richardfinegold]

That’s child’s play compared with the subtitler’s ignorance of Ms Panufnik:






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Oh my. I thought Wagner sounded erotic. Time to re-examine Panufnik oeuvre.

[Serial_Apologist]

I always liked:-
'Much of Lincolnshire is shrouded in a dangerous dog'

That would be referring to Doggy Faye!