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<p>Someone’s asleep at MSNBC tonight. Anyone else notice?</p>
<p>I’m curious- what’s wrong with the report?</p>
<p>Tripical Storm?</p>
<p>haha i love it when they mess up</p>
<p>Tripical- I guess that just means three tropical.</p>
<p>I guess it’s fixed.</p>
<p>:-( yeah they fixed it.</p>
<p>Last night when I was watching the US Open Women’s final, as Justine Henin was getting ready to serve on the last point, it said “Championsihp Point.”</p>
<p>slightly off topic- but have you ever noticed when tv stations do the subtitle/captioning as someones is speaking that there are a gazillion typos and misspellings, or outright errors? I shouldn’t be one to talk, a I am the queen of typos, those who do this for a living and put it out onthe airwaves should be better at it, IMO.</p>
<p>I think they use a program that does the captions as people speak. I don’t think there’s necessarily a human sitting there doing it. I may be wrong. Anyone else know?</p>
<p>oregonianmom: well at least they got the more appropriate letter wrong. Can you imagine had they typed a ‘t’ for the ‘p’?</p>
<p>terriwtt-
You are probably right about the speech-to-text programmimg for captions, but I dunno for sure. I would think they’d need to have someone overseeing it be sure something bizarre doesnt go out over the airwaves.</p>
<p>The best, BEST typo was in my HS yearbook. Under “hobbies” I put “flattening pennies on traintracks” . The copy editor called me to tell me that the first galley had come out and they’d accidentally left out one of the “n’s” and the final “e” in pennies :eek: HAHAHAHAHA. I said "you changed it,right?? You changed “flattening” to “squashed”, right? :D</p>
<p>Watching a show the other night, and there were typos left and right on the captioning. It’s frustrating for me, and detracts from the program. These were not “live” captions either, more like headings.</p>
<p>jym626: hmmmmm… accidentally? I wonder if the print-setter tried to slip one in on you? That would have been hilarious! Well, maybe not at the time.</p>
<p>"just"aMom: with D2 now away at school, I look forward to turning on a TV and not having to reset the CC setting. Whenever there is the slightest noise in our house, she likes to put it on so she won’t miss a word. I think that’s how she developed her unique sense of memorizing lines from shows (you know, seeing and hearing stick in your mind better than just seeing or hearing). But she never turns it off, and then we turn it on, and yes, it is extremely irritating.</p>
<p>That’s a tripickle of a storm!</p>
<p>Dam, sum uv yu hav wa tu much tim on yor hans. Mike…</p>
<p>There was a headline in our local paper about the Public Health Department; they mistakenly left out the first L.</p>
<p>I love that I am not the only one who uses CC on TV, that stupid background music is always so loud and it not that, then the commercials, but you still miss the finer points of diaglog. My kids hate it, but I love being able to catch what is really going on- you would think multitasking teens could learn to ignore the words unless they miss what is said, but they complain the words are distracting, whilst they do 14 things at the same time in their normal everyday life!</p>
<p>I guess I’m veering off topic, but closed captioning is not annoying at our house. We got a TV with closed captioning around the time a 9-year-old nephew came to live with us for almost a year. My D was an avid reader, but her cousin could only be convinced of the value of reading if it was tied to earning TV time, and he earned each 30-minute show with equal time reading. He had spent most of his free time in front of the TV before he came to us and wasn’t very active at all, so we used physical activity as another bargaining chip. He would go out and shoot baskets or ride his bike to earn an extra 30 minutes of TV time, but for that show he had to turn down the volume and “read” the show with closed captioning. It took a while for him to buy in, but he finally did and now he is an engaging young man with a variety of interests besides TV.</p>