Tuesday, August 29, 2006
what the....
Aggravation.
At the gym today, working out, and I am watching the news cast on the TV above the bikes. As always, it is muted and the closed captioning is on. Most people don’t really care for CC but I rely on it heavily to figure out what the hell is going on in the world. I also use it when watching TV shows and movies at home.
The live typists for closed caption news, however, are idiots. Really. I mean it. And I don’t like to use that word because it basically means lacking all knowledge. But really, this one was an idiot.
Hello honey, I know you are under pressure when you type fast in order to keep up with the news and not have too much of a lag time but let me clue you in to a little secret: misspelled words? That isn’t too kosher. Now, I can understand d misspelling words where you just put the “I” before the “E” by mistake. But really important words? Or really simple words? How did you get this job?
Here are some BLARING examples from the broadcast about New Orleans and Apple iTune’s:
“hist tor tick” that is supposed to be historic
“Muse sick” yup, music
“ape pell” Uhh... apple
“sat mare ies” St. Mary’s?
let’s not forget my favorite….
“knew ort lan ness” any guesses?
It was supposed to be New Orleanans. (Mind you I don’t really think that there is a real word spelling for it but you get the idea.)
I ponder about the intelligence of this lovely typist but then I realize that the channel is FOX news. Oh yeah… real accurate news casts there. No wonder this person works there. Look who owns the station…
posted by Nut's mom at 2:51 PM
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2 Comments:
It might not have been a human. Those voice programs that type what you say often dont understand what you say and they interpret it wrong. Atleast thats what I hope happened.
god I hope so. it used to be live people but maybe the macines have taken over. lol
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