Tell Someone From The Beeb

[malagabob]

Storm weather report BBC1 news tonight Video report caption said it was from Angelsea??

[jno]

captions do their best but the computers don't always get it right. My favourite, from Sky Cricket: "Alastair Cook will be wanting more runs" was subtitled "Alastair Cook will be wanting morons."

[Peter Pedant]

i| noticed that too

the sea at Anglesea seemed to be seeping in .....

[ichkeria]

My all time favourite:
After an accident on the M9 it was reported that the Strewth Collide police were on the scene

[Peter Pedant]

The Beeb operative reported boredom at having to answer dum-*** questions on this

and the hack said - yes but 'Prince Harry and Hesbullahi'
instead of Harry and his brother ....

and the operative sullenly admitted it could have been better expressed

[malagabob]

It wasn’t a narrative caption Jno, it was where the report/video was coming from.

[Mamyalynne]

Mistakes happen, you can contact them though.

[Gromit]

News subtitling works off voice recognition software which is constantly learning.

I remember a a news report that had the pub in hysterics. It was about celebrations for the Chinese year of the horse, but the titling kept calling it the year of the ***.

[Gromit]

Year of the *** S.

[Gromit]

Good grief.

Who res.

[jno]

may still be computer-generated, though, malagabob..

At the Queen Mother's funeral, apparently there was a call for a minute of violence.

[Peter Pedant]

th bored young man at the beeb - the one who couldnt stand having to answer dumb-arrissed questions
gave us a limp unconvincing explanation how titling worked

mixture of machine and bored human I think