I watch all shows/movies with captions on. I can tell when it's "auto" generated vs human. I notice some captions leave out "extra" words. Like in Gilmore Girls. The dialog is so fast pace, so many words, the captions don't keep up, or aren't verbatim. For GGs specifically, I feel like that's a loss for the viewer who NEEDS the captions, cause there is SO much in the dialog.
No point to this, really. Just rambling into the void...! lol
@Evereigh Oooh, big Gilmore Girls fan here, but if I had a choice, I'd rather spend time letting Sookie cook me lovely things or talking shop and trading records with Laine...
@Evereigh You are not rambling into the void. Some of us hear the call. As for me there are two issues why captions are necessary:
1. There are times when conversations are too low to hear over movie's background audio. Yeah, but full booms for explosions
2. There are actors that mumble or you just can't understand the English accent. Yes, I'm looking at certain United Kingdom accents...
@Evereigh I love having captions on, should probably get my hearing checked sometime. We have a lot of extra noise with my daughter playing stuff on her iPad, and hubby watching vids on his phone. Sometimes I just go in the bedroom to have silence around me while I watch something on tv.
@Evereigh I do this too, and when I happen to watch anime, there's often an entirely different translation on caption vs dubbed.
It's great for pulling out details, but yeah the auto generated just aren't as smooth.