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0 pointslowdose6y ago0 comments

While Youtube auto captioning has a superior performance compared to Google Translate output. In youtube translations there is much more language specific nuance. In many European languages a more formal word for the English word "you" exists, in German it is "Sie", French "Vous".

Correct interpretations of these nuances are applied by Youtube, Google however translates "you" by default to the most formal option.

So to me $1 dollar per minute sounds like an awesome deal because there is not much to adjust.

Out of curiosity, can you link to such a gig company?

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uncle_j6y ago

Youtube auto captioning doesn't work for British Accents especially anything Northern English, Scottish or Welsh.

The same with any voice control, It doesn't work with my west country accent.

ghaff6y ago

I don’t know if it’s a gig company necessarily. As I understand it they don’t use Amazon Turk anymore but I use CastingWords and have been very happy with them. I think they’re just English though.

michaelt6y ago

> Out of curiosity, can you link to such a gig company?

The one mentioned in the article is https://www.rev.com/

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