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Drew Carey's closed captioning has mistakes

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vchimpanzee

The name of the game is "Cliff Hangers", not "Clive Hangers" or "Clip Hangers". It's not a live show, so why is someone typing as if doing it live? Why is it being done live, if it is?

This restuarant normally has a news channel on. I don't know why they changed it to "Price Is Right".
 
Although Drew has gotten better..............if they intended to replace Bob Barker with a
cardboard..........they've succeeded.
 
On TV shows captioned by the National Captioning Institute in the 1980s and early '90s, captioning sometimes doesn't match what people say. For instance, in the Super Mario TV show, giant Bully mentions that those 'ugly' raccoons look like Mario and Luigi, and Toad replies: "Those *are* the Mario Brothers! And if you don't let us go, they'll make you sorry!" Then giant Big Mouth says: "Wrong, you furry fuzzface-- I'll make *them* sorry." But the captioning would read this:

TOAD: Let us go, or you'll be sorry...

BIG MOUTH: Wrong! I'll make *them* sorry!
 
gregg75 said:
Although Drew has gotten better..............if they intended to replace Bob Barker with a
cardboard..........they've succeeded.
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Could it be they intended to replace him with someone cheaper? ???
(Just a thought)
 
Could be. I think they just wanted a big name. A robot could do what he does.......just
glide through the games. You see spots where something funny could be inserted (as
Bob often did) but Drew doesn't pick up on that. Then, at odd moments he trys to be
funny...........and it usually doesn't work too well. SAD. :mad:

For someone who is supposed to be LOADED with personality, he must leave it at home.
 
@Iowan: Classic example of condensing closed captions so that the gist of the dialogue appears on the screen. I've also seen this on the average "Married... With Children" rerun.

My biggest gripe with closed captioning done in real-time is when the encoder spells out a contraction word (i.e. "it is" when the person on the program says "it's").
 
To answer vchimpanzee's query, I think they might be using a speech recognition system to generate the captions, like what some of the local news channels use. To me, they don't read like traditional, human-keyed typing errors. It's cheaper to use a computer with speech input software to generate captions directly from the audio stream than it is to payroll a human stenotype operator to transcribe the show. I'd do it for them, but don't think my steno-typing speed (~130 WPM, last I tested myself) would be up to par with CBS' needs. ;o)

In all honesty, I think John O'Hurley would've made a far better Bob Barker than Drew Carey. From what I have seen on "Family Feud", John seems to have that type of personality for the job that Drew severely lacks.
 
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