Google have added a closed caption button to some YouTube videos that amazingly automatically listens to the words being said in the video then tries to work them out and print them as subtitles on the screen. The feature is still in BETA and for a good reason. The translation for our trick below is not entirely accurate. Our cautionary tale about oral hygiene and demonic possession is now about “four oh hi jean I didn’t want to because it should.”
You could use this feature to write your very own abstract poetry. The opening of “This is a tale unlike all the rest about a young boy whose tongue was demonically possessed” becomes “this isn’t a lot like a little less about a young boy whose tongue was still on a clean cassettes.”
As for “OJ Simpson slapping away”… I wish we did put that in the poem now.
In Google’s defence, maybe the bots don’t like the Scottish accent?
To access the captions you currently need to view the video on YouTube and turn on the BETA function from the bottom right of the player.
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Nista Apr 6 2010 - 2:43 am
How can anyone or anything not like a Scottish accent? Fun fact: you posted this on my 18th birthday.
Ben Rusholme May 5 2010 - 4:30 pm
Yeah, “not entirely accurate”!! Still nice to see that video again since I was there to watch it live.
Alison Jun 29 2010 - 10:28 pm
Your accent isn’t even that strong. I’m from Ayrshire… wonder what the bots would make of my voice…