#closed captions

How accurate does everyone prefer their subtitles/closed captioning? Do you prefer to just have the voices, or do you prefer it to have everything. The different infliction in the voices (Or if they change how they say something, deeper or lower or a funny accent), each time someone laughs or chuckles, the background sounds or sound effects. I really want to make sure these subtitles are as inclusive as they can be.

As someone who is perfect hearing, I forget about all the background noises or changes in voices. So I’m wondering from others who are Hard of Hearing, deaf and Deaf (I did that right, right?) which do you hope to see in a youtube video CC?

fatgothgf:

whenever i click the cc button on a youtube video that clearly has a high budget and is made by a fucking studio and i see “english - auto generated” i spit daggers from my eyes and mouth at whoever decided to not pay someone to make actual captions

[CC] History of ASL Performers at the Super Bowl (compilation)

History of ASL Performers, performing the National Anthem, at the Super Bowl. Starting with Lori Henry in 1992 and ending with Sandra Mae Frank in 2022.

Video credits in YouTube description.

tikkety-tok:

I thought it was gonna be the other way around, but this is way better

[Video ID: a tiktok by user @ jillieholiday. The text spoken by the robotic voice at the beginning of the video is also displayed in the form of an onscreen caption. While the voice reads the caption, the video shows a girl in a green hat, looking amused and covering her mouth as though to suppress laughter. The video switches to footage of a balding, gray-haired pastor who stands at an on-stage podium wearing a gray suit and red tie. He remains relatively still as he speaks, up until the point where he says “I’d better just get used to it”. At this point raises his arms to around waist-height a couple times, seemingly in exasperation. When he says “get it out of your system,” he raises his arms to around the same height and waves his hands back and forward slightly, as though trying to shoo the audience away. When he pauses, he looks down at the podium with a sigh before saying that he’s “not used to being laughed at” End ID]

[CC: 

Robotic voice: “a pastor’s time slot got switched with a comedian’s at a Christian conference I’m laughing so hard”

Pastor: “So I thought I would spare you the analysis and just tell you up front um…I’m a sinner.” (The audience laughs.)

Pastor: “A man who never feels sure of his motives, including the one’s I feel right now about why I’m doing this.” (The audience laughs again.)

Pastor: “And–you’re a very strange audience” (The audience laughs again. For a brief moment, the audio stops abruptly). I’d better just get used to it. I–this is a *serious* talk in case you–wondered. (The audience begins laughing in the middle of his sentence. The laughter grows in volume as the pastor reaches the end of his sentence.) “Get it out of your system”.

Pastor: “But, uh. (He pauses and seems to take a deep breath.) “I’m just not used to being laughed at, y’know?)]

appraisedtiktoks:

[Video ID: A tiktok by user @ skinnypudge. The person in the video is offscreen, speaking to a black cat that is laying on the floor. All that can be seen of the person speaking is his hand, which holds a tiny cowboy hat. After he says “Here we go,” he tosses the cowboy hat like a frisbee, and the hat lands right on top of the cat’s head. When the music starts playing at the end, the video shows a close up still-shot of the cat wearing the cowboy hat. The cat appears unamused. End ID]

[CC: 

Person behind camera: “Okay, if you wanna be the sheriff, you have to catch the hat, okay? Here we go!” (He stops speaking to throw the hat. When it lands, he laughs. He begins speaking again through his laughter). “That was literally the first try!” 

(As the video switches to the still-shot of the cat wearing the cowboy hat, the audio abruptly switches to the Animal Crossing Wild World Daytime Town Hall Theme)]

tiktoksthataregood-ish:

[Video ID: A TikTok by user @ catboyslimshady. The video shows a person with short green and blue dyed hair, an orange shirt, and a pink Trolls jacket speaking into the camera. When asking “Hey, are you a male or a female?” they speak using body language that suggests that they are imitating someone who is confused. They then switch to talking as themself using a more casual demeanor, saying “Mmm, actually, for your information, I’m Gmail” before turning and whipping their head around rapidly. Their face becomes distorted as the Gmail logo appears on their face with a fade-in. End ID]

[CC: “(Imitating someone else) Hey, are you a male or a female?” (Speaking as themself) Mmm, actually, for your information? (They give a brief dramatic pause). I’m Gmail. (As the Gmail logo appears onscreen, distorted laughter followed by rock instrumentals can be heard)]

feedyourlocalgoth:

demonicstain:

transcribed-described:

vulcanette:

[ID: a tiktok by @/christiantheshowm, with a caption that reads “Millennials/Gen Z’s as Therapists:” and is a conversation between a therapist and his patient. The therapist is a black man with a beard, wearing a suit and round glasses. the patient is a black man lying down on a couch with one hand resting on his head. he is also wearing a white hoodie. the hoodie is up and the drawstrings are pulled tightly so that only his eyes, nose, and mouth are shown.]

Transcript:

Therapist: So how have things been?

Patient: Maybe I was just put on this earth just to die.

Therapist:Ok.

Patient: Like I’m not meant to find love or be happy.

Therapist: I got you.

Patient: Like I’m just supposed to die.

(the patient turns to the therapist who nods. the camera zooms in.)

Therapist (putting a pen up by his mouth): It do be like that sometimes.

Patient:It do be like that sometimes.

(the camera zooms in more)

Therapist:But not all the time.

That actually made me feel better.

Why did this like bring a tear to me eyes

tiktoksthataregood-ish:

[Video ID: A tiktok by user @ ricotaquito. The speaker, a man who appears to be Hispanic and/or Latino, with shoulder length black hair and a mustache, stands in front of the camera wearing a “JUST DO IT” t-shirt tucked into brown pants. The caption above him reads “Me in 8th grade defending myself after being called gay”.

As he begins talking, the speaker leans forward slightly, his arms hanging at his side. As he speaks, he punctuates his words with small, sharp backwards movements of his arms. As his tone becomes angrier and more argumentative, he often steps forward slightly, moving his neck from side to side, almost but not quite tightening his fingers into fists. When he says “Lady Gaga’s just a really good artist,” he lifts his arm sharply to about hip-height, pointing in front of him while trying unsuccessfully to suppress a smile. He begins to laugh uproariously and, as he does, on-screen text reads “I broke character” followed by three emojis.

He tosses his head back, turning around in a circle while alternating between leaning forward and leaning backward from laughing. Once he faces towards the camera again, he briefly falls forward from laughter, throwing his head forward and putting one hand on his knee while the other grips a desk next to him for stability. He then stands up straight and reaches in front of him to turn the camera off, still laughing. End ID].

[CC: Speaker: Shut up! I’m not gay! I like girls more than *you* do, idiot. God…Lady Gaga’s just a really good artist.

(He wheezes and begins to laugh uproariously. At the end of the video, he says something else that is difficult to make out through his laughter. It sounds as though he says “That’s so–” before the video cuts off.)]

appraisedtiktoks:

[Video description: a tiktok by user @ jennettemccurdy. She stands in front of the camera with a cheerful-looking expression. The caption onscreen reads “wondering what it would have been like to have had a healthy, non-traumatic childhood”. She lipsyncs with the audio and then starts dancing, moving her shoulders up and down (i.e. one shoulder up, one down while alternating between the two) and moving her head around in a small circle. End ID].

[CC: (Faint music can be heard playing in the background of the video. After a few seconds, an audio clip from Kanye West’s 2017 Grammy’s speech plays, which the woman in the video (Jenette McCurdy), lip-syncs to.)

Kanye West: “I guess we’ll never know”

(The sound of cheering from the audience from the Grammy’s overlaps with the song playing in the background, which seems to be a pop song of some kind)]

tiktoksforlosers:

[Video ID: a tiktok by user @ bbeckettt showing a zoom meeting for a math class of some sort. The teacher is writing on a piece of paper, which is displayed on screen for the class and says “Ex” followed by the quadratic equation 6x squared + 2x-8. Below the equation is scratch work to find the GCF (greatest common factor) of 2, which has been used to simplify the equation to 2(3x squared + 1x-8). The tiktok caption reads “I left it on” followed by a crying emoji. End ID]

[CC: 

Teacher: “So it’s gotta be four and three. ‘Kay, any questions before I go on from here?”

Student: (They respond with a voice filter which makes their voice sound like several robot or alien voices of varying pitches speaking all at once. Whatever it is that they are saying is made completely incomprehensible by the voice filter.)

Teacher: (stunned pause) …Great. I really understood that well!]

With@taylorswift’s descriptive/specific lyrics I couldn’t not do a Champagne Problems bridge interpretive dance (w props)