![]() ![]() ![]() Production processes and audio techniques are making captions/subtitles more valuable to an ever-increasing share of the audience. In fact, get human beings who SPEAK THE DIALECT to do it, so that you don’t get the amusing but jarring effect when some American captioner applies an American word where a British English (or worse – Scots or Geordie or Cockney dialect!) word is actually being spoken.” Always pick the SDH if they’re available, they have a miniscule chance of being more accurate, and they more often include SFX and music indicators.Īlthough I am grateful our Raku doodad has its own captions settings that (SOMETIMES) operate independently of the streaming channel’s, it’s uneven at best.Ĭontent Producers, LISTEN UP: “NO, AI is NOT yet ready to do in-line captioning, so KNOCK THAT SH*T OFF and get actual human beings to actually do captions. Sometimes you get a choice between plain “captions/subtitles” and “SDH captions” (“Subtitles for Deaf and Hearing-Impaired”, I think). THANK YOU, Athena! As a hard-of-hearing person I rely on subtitles for everything and this problem annoys the crap out of me. whether it be background conversation, SFX, or indication of tone. People who use subtitles deserve just as good of a viewing experience as non-users, and deserve the same amount of information that non-users get. The fact that a 100-million-dollar show has fucking garbage ass subtitles says a lot about how much they care about accessibility. It was very strange.Īll this is to say, HBO Max needs better options for their subtitles, and better ACTUAL SUBTITLES. Plus, there was a huge mix of caps lock VS not caps lock. Sometimes it would say who was speaking, then for the next five times someone spoke it wouldn’t. At first, I was happy that it would specify who was speaking, but it was short lived, as it was completely inconsistent. How are you going to watch South Park without knowing who is speaking sarcastically?! It’s important stuff!įinally, I tried HBO Max’s big seller, Game of Thrones. Again, no indication of which character was speaking, or in what tone. The subtitles on The Book of Life were weirdly delayed though, not by much, but enough that I noticed it.įollowing that, I tried South Park. It indicated when someone was singing rather than speaking by putting a music note before the line, included background conversation, and showed when a character sighed, grunted, etc. Why would you ever put subtitles in nothing but caps?! It also did not indicate tone, who was speaking, etc. For Teen Titans, I was surprised by the fact that the subtitles were all in caps lock. I turned on Teen Titans to see how they compared. So, I started to wonder if other shows/movies on HBO Max were just as bad, or if it was just their newest, most popular, biggest budget show that had shitty subtitles. ![]() These are important aspects of subtitles! And there’s zero choice of this on HBO Max. Amazon Prime gives you four choices of font size, as well as the choice to make the background of the subtitles opaque or solid. Unlike Amazon Prime, on HBO Max you can’t choose the size or transparency of the subtitles. They also include no SFX, which means no “monster screeching”, “zombie clicking”, “guns shooting”, “explosions”! How are you going to leave out the zombie noises entirely, in a zombie show?!Īside from all this, I’m also upset about the lack of choices when it comes to the subtitles themselves. What do I mean by “bad” subtitles, though? How can subtitles be bad, and what would good ones look like? I’m glad you asked! I was frustrated by the subtitles for The Last of Us, because they left out entire words on several occasions, they don’t indicate who is speaking, or in what tone anyone says anything, they don’t include things like sighing, gasping, exclaiming, or include any background conversation. You would think that such a huge, expensive, and widely-anticipated show would cater better to its subtitle-using audience, but you’d be severely disappointed. I have also been watching it with subtitles, and I’m shocked at how garbage they are. I, like many others, have been watching The Last of Us on HBO Max. HBO Max Subtitles Need To Get With the Program
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