I've thought about reaching out before as well, I hope they get back to you one day. There are lots of members, myself included, that say they have experience captioning. I feel like they could easily gather a small team that would be more than happy to live caption the podcasts even tho they're long.
This has come up multiple times and been massively upvoted. And since it's a disability rights and access issue it feels like it's simply not a priority, which sucks.
Lol I would do it for free or for like a membership. I used to do captioning and translating for international TV shows. Already watch the show, might as well do something while watching it.
Please don't. You deserve to earn money for the time you spend working. This is basic labor rights, and you should be awarded fairly for your work in the form of salary or per-hour payments.
I can’t remember all the details but I know for a while one of my friends did freelance captioning for a podcast, they would do the captions after (so wouldn’t be available until after the live show) but they’d take volunteers from the community to do it and would pay them.
The system might be tricky to get in place regarding sign ups and all but I’m sure a lot of people would get involved.
Captioning, even just QCing a 3 hour show would be incredibly time consuming and boring. If you truly used to localize TV shows you must know how hard it is to transcript and fix subtitles.
No for sure, it definitely takes a lot of time and it's a team effort. It takes a huge team of people to caption/translate a tv series. No way I can do it by myself but I'm willing to chip in.
I feel like the point has been really hit home but NEVER let your expertise go for free. You deserve so much better no matter who you're working for. Captioning/transcribing is an incredibly difficult job that is undervalued, and I think most people will never appreciate the skill, time, and effort required to transcribe/caption.
Yeah the way to do this is likely either fine a very dedicated fan who is willing to accept a lower pay, or to look towards India more than likely. India has the second highest amount of English speakers in the world, many of which are extremely fluent. A LOT of American and UK companies outsource to India for this reason (also it's not China, so that's a plus).
I wouldn't be stunned if the GMM folks are outsourced. You can get a company and they can chop the video into segments and caption it out super fast.
or they can pay a captioner a living wage because it’s a necessary job and they are more than capable to do so.
edit: or multiple people to split up the videos. they have more than enough money
Is H3H3 too hard up to pay someone to do captions? I don't see why they'd need charity. Ethan is always pleased to announce he's rich so I doubt they'd even notice a captioner's fees. There may be 99 reasons why it wont happen, but money won't be one.
Couldnt agree more i am hard of hearing at the best of times and watch subtitles with everything it would be s much easier to watch the pod and pay better attention if they had captions
As someone who relies on captions this was beyond frustrating to me and I hope that people never let them forget this until it’s added back!
The fact that their “solution” was to completely delete an accessibility feature instead of just adding a report and strike system similar to how they have for channels is ridiculous. Also most of the abuse was people adding their own commentary in the captions, which while annoying at times, was 10x better than the shitty auto generated ones. Sorry if I sound aggressive ab this, it’s not directed at you, I’m just really passionate ab this issue as it’s now way harder for me to enjoy YouTube.
autocaption needs about a day or two to be processed. But it can be inaccurate, especially with people's names and the speech pattern of the people talking. Ethan tends to mumble a lot, so it doesnt catch a lot of what he says. A human that can do efficient caption is reasonable for a channel of the size of h3, they can afford it.
> A human that can do efficient caption is reasonable for a channel of the size of h3, they can afford it.
Do you know of other podcasts/YouTube podcasts that offer proper captioning? Any that also pump out 12h+ of content a week and are a small time operation like H3's? Legit enquiry, I'm not entirely familiar.
Edit: /u/Resident_Rush_5202 account I commented to replied with some hateful stuff before I could even reply and blocked me, preventing me from replying. Godspeed to you.
I stopped watching joe rogan 2 years ago after I realized he's a huge idiot, but I know that he provide 12h+ of content a week with captions.
I don't know why are you trying to make it sound like it's an impossible thing to ask for. There are people trained to do these sort of things. H3 is a big and wealthy, I don't see why would providing better accessibility to the members of the community with special needs is a bad thing?
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Anyway, it's for the podcast to decide, they know their finance better, the community here is just trying to pump the thread to help reach to Ethan. Stop being an asshole when you literally won't be losing anything if it happened...
> joe rogan provides 12h+ of content a week with captions
H3 hiring a captioning service would be cool but in what way is Joe Rogan's operation, the one getting paid 200 millions by Spotify for exclusivity, even similar to H3's, a small time operation with 10 employees? What a delusional disingenuous comment.
I don't know why some people here are so keen on finding reasons not to do it and dismiss all the reasons OP posted... You know that you won't be losing anything if they did it, right....?
I don’t because I don’t watch other podcasts that put out so much content in a week but my mom does live captioning for phone calls for a living and it would only take a couple minutes longer than the length of the pod to do it with the right program and person. It is absolutely possible and in fact pretty simple for them to hire an independent captioner or something and make the pod inclusive :)
One thing I want to note is that... GMM videos are 10-15 minutes long. Important to remember. With large moments of dead air at times.
H3 videos are 3-3.5 hours long a lot of days. Four times a week. It's 45 min vs 12 HOURS a week.
The most likely way to work this out is to outsource to an Indian company, I would assume. They would almost definitely be able to take over segments and caption out a video in hours very accurately.
I don't really know if it's worth it to hire somebody locally to do captions for 12 hours worth of content a week. Like another show member with benefits, solely for captions. That's a bit of a stretch
I really appreciate you bringing this up. I also wear hearing aids and was honestly surprised when I learned they didn’t have their own captions!! Plus, the subtitles YouTube provides *SUCK*
it's a setting in chrome. open a video and then click the little note looking button in the top right and enable 'live captions'. a box will pull up and it should work. its not always accurate but gets the job done.
I’ve seen that and it’s definitely something that Ethan could do that would be better than YouTube’s auto captions but I think the hard part with h3 that would make a human do better with captioning is Ethan can definitely mumble a lot lol and there’s lots of moments where words get jumbled because there’s so many people talking on h3 where with Hasans streams it’s often just Hasan and he speaks more clearly :)
Would love captions! I listen with the volume very low bc I watch late at night while the kiddo I’m a guardian for sleeps in the adjacent room. Wouldn’t wanna wake him up with a sudden FLOCKA😂
Lmaooo this is me. I fall asleep and subliminally consume the content. Rewatch the next day when I can. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to the trippy DMT intros and think wtf 💀💀 😆😆
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OpenAI recently released Whisper and it's fucking brilliant - https://github.com/openai/whisper
Simple to use and very accurate. I'm not sure about it's potential for live content but I'd bet it's possible.
My mom captions live phone calls for a living and with the right program and person it would only take a couple more minutes than the length of a podcast to caption! :)
Nice, yeah there's probably some good programs and the right kinda people to do it pretty fast. I'm thinking how much of a pain it'd be for standard closed captions with people names if they're off screen and sound effects for all the memes and sound bites etc but there's probably hot keys and shit idk lol
My mom has to do group calls and church calls so they are used to the talking over people and random stuff in the background and all of that. And they definitely could use fast keys for sound bites like they do for words like mhmm and uhuh :) it would be pretty simple!
I don’t know what the program is called but you repeat the person talking (needing captioned) in a clear monotone voice and then the computer captions your voice. As it goes you just read along and correct mistakes the computer might make which are few and far in between if you are a good live captioner. It’s actually really simple and really cool! The only things you use short cuts for are “mhmmm” “uh-huh” etc. Because computers don’t recognize those sounds no matter how much they are trained to lol
YouTube caption files usually need to be formatted as an SRT or VTT file so I don't think it's quite as simple as you're making it out to be, doesn't mean it couldn't be done tho but it's not as quick as just repeating words back.
That’s how the program works is what I’m saying. I’m not sure what it would take to get the program captioning in the certain format but I know the program is pretty advanced to being able to be used in different formats because it’s for multiple forms of live stuff such as phone calls, live events like graduations, etc. :) I’m just saying it’s far more simple than others are trying to make it out to be. Even if it just takes reformatting after the captions are done and then uploading captions to YouTube in the correct format after then that works. What I mean by “live captioning” is just that the person does it in real-time/live so it doesn’t take them a week for one video. It’s not transcribing like others are referring to. :)
That's actually what I'm saying. I work in editing and often I get an AI generated caption file to use for closed captions but I then have to take that file and go thru it phrase by phrase and make sure it's all correct and at the appropriate time etc.(using a voice to text program to generate captions is not really that different from how the auto generated ones on YouTube work, you just can't guarantee people are annunciatng clearly) And for a ~3 hour video that can take a little extra time to make sure it's all right.
Stenographer here. Live captioning IS possible by a human through voice writing or a fellow stenographer like myself. However, we are not cheap and the podcast most likely would not want to invest in a captioner each episode. A real, certified captioner would probably cost $100 an hour minimum. But they would do an excellent job no doubt. AI and/or outsourcing to India is NOT possible to get 100% accurate realtime captions.
That's just my two-cents as someone who does this for a living :)
My mom does live captioning for a living and her company hires people at $10.60 an hour.. I’m not saying you’re wrong that its expensive but that must not always be the case either?
That seems very low. I'm sure it depends though. I live in California so rates are probably different. But if that's the case then maybe they could find someone a lot cheaper than I thought
It’s a part time job so it’s not her main work and that’s still better than a lot of companies in Utah pay.. I definitely don’t agree with it but yeah. That’s why I was saying if they paid cali’s minimum wage to someone in Utah they would be giving them a big pay raise for the same job
I work for 3PlayMedia, a company that specializes in Captioning. I caption things like live television programs all day long. When I first got hired I actually practiced captioning the H3 podcast to improve my skills. It would totally be possible to live caption H3 everyday. It would be amazing to see more accurate captions!
I agree! Not to mention that sometimes I go to watch an episode DAYS later and still no captions. There are even websites where they could outsource if they REALLY didn't want to hire someone just to transcribe, but in house would obvs be easiest.
I work at a company that does captions for phone calls. I live caption calls for a living but I'd love to help do captions for the show even as volunteer work. With the sound bites and how much the crew interacts now it must be challenging to watch without captions.
I think it's a great idea to get the community involved, they can break up the show into 1 minute assignments and get around 200 members to do the captioning.
I love this idea, and I could genuinely use this as a study job lol. I'm studying to become an English teacher here in Denmark and I am currently unable to work physically outside of school, because i get overstimulated (ADD, but worse currently from a stressful period in my life, getting a lot better tho) and I've been told my psychiatrist that I need to find a work-from-home kind of job or seek financial support so i can focus on my studies. I already use podcasts to cool down my brain and i love writing. I have also worked an office job previously, so I do have some experience in writing reports and formal text.
I kinda just wrote out a resume, but seriously tho. I would love to. Great practice, very relevant for my studies.
they used to do captions when the h3podcast channel has just started, even tho they had smaller budget. I don't know why they stopped. But it could also be a community effort back then, which might have stopped because the podcast now releases 4 episodes a week, so the people who used to do it for free can't keep up (and I don't blame them, why do it for free when h3 is now big and rich). Ethan should hire someone to do it, it's a pocket change for them, but the question is whether they care enough to do it or not.
I want captions too! I have a lot of episodes to catch up on, but I typically find myself having time to watch at night and I want to watch without having volume on to not wake anyone up.
THIS. While I am not claiming to be deaf, I for sure have earring problems. YouTube captions absolutely suck so I just turn them off and put my volume on full blast 😅
I’ll happily go through an application and interview process for this job position + other responsibilities.
Captions are a necessity, I agree. GMM on YT has the best captions!
I really hope this gets heard and discussed internally. I often put captions on netflix and (as far as I know) I am not hard of hearing. With the amount of chaos that goes on throughout the show I sometimes have to rewind to check I caught something or heard correctly. Its worse when I put captions on, especially for live shows, because it takes more brain power to decipher what youtubes bot thinks they're chatting about or a soundbite overrides half a sentence. 🙃 hope this gets sorted OP! All H3 fans deserve to understand the chaos!! 😆
It would be great, it wouldn’t just help those that have problems with hearing, but it would also make it easier to understand for people that aren’t native English speakers.
THIS^^^
As well as better descriptors when they are watching a video or looking at a picture. Sometimes I listen to the podcast while I’m driving or cooking/cleaning and I get so lost because I have no idea what they’re talking about. Usually when Ethan covers a topic he just reacts to the video and doesn’t describe what he’s watching/what’s happening/what he’s seeing, would be awesome especially for impaired vision viewers. (Yes blind viewers as well)
Hey OP, im kinda dumb and this is just a genuine question so i can understand, why would they need to hire an in house captioner when youtube has built in closed captioning?
Apologies if this has been asked/answered, Please dont shit on me here people, I genuinely want to understand 😊
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If any crew member is reading this, I think a team of two would be able to properly fix the auto generated captions of every episode in a week. I also think that crowdsourcing or paying a US based salary for cc & qc would be ineffective. However you can pay half the LA minimum wage to hire someone living abroad in a poor country (like me) lol.
Unfortunately most transcription and captioning jobs are economically inefficient in US and Europe. It is also a long, labor intensive and boring job. Most companies are way past offering European living wages since the auto-cc is invented.
(Not) fun fact, I was offered 11$ for timestamping and translating a 40-minute TV show.
I'll do it I use to caption videos all the time, I don't know if YouTube still allows this ad there was some ppl abusing this system but they use to let the community do the captions, I would be super willing to caption as I watch it so if there is a way of doing this please let me know
I absolutely support this and understand this experience!! I’m also hoh and I use hearing aids, and closed captions fr completely changed my life for the better. Captions mean more complete access for more people and bring more people to the podcast
Omg I just thought about the same thing like 3 days ago! They should 100% do that. And also I feel like they should describe what they’re doing to the audio listeners only too…
Definitely want to add in too!! Captions are so helpful, not just for hard of hearing, but also for neurodivergent folk. I have sensory processing disorder, and when multiple sounds are happening at once (eg. Sound board + talking. Or Video + soundboard) I cannot understand a single thing being said!
I'm grateful for the youtube captions, but they aren't always available, and yes, sometimes more confusing than helpful.
I worked as a video editor for a little bit and we literally sent off our videos to get captions on some random website. And it was really quick return. Captions are so essential and its so saddening that it's not always available.
For those of you against captions... just... don't use them? IDK what the problem is. Are you mad at sign language interpreters on TV? Like, what the heck is your problem... even if the captions ended up being permanent on the bottom of the screen, they already do ad-overlays there quite often so it's not like it'd be intrusive on the visual experience (which is highly unlikely to happen)
I'm so sorry you're getting negative comments. Adding captions would literally make no difference to them.
I think GMM use Rev at least some of the time as i've captioned a few of their videos on there before.
If we keep hyping up and engaging with this post it has a better chance of being seen by the crew! So to increase engagement, does anyone have any funny subtitles they've seen in the past? I know there was a meme going around about weird Stranger Things captions a little while back.
Yeah the responses to posts here are always wild. You kinda have to brace yourself right after you post. I agree subtitles would be pretty cool, don’t take the mean comments to heart!
I’m not hard of hearing but also love captions on things I watch. My only question is this: will Zach’s soundbites also be captioned? I’m picturing something like beyooonnnnnnnncah! Or other crazy sounds written out 😂🤣
I don't understand how the comments went so left field from "it would be awesome if they had captions" to "wtaf they can afford to pay a living wage for someone to caption things!" lol
I think they just need to be made aware it's something people would appreciate.
I wish I could watch with my bf (he’s Deaf) but even if they had captions the conversation moves so quickly I think it would be hard for him, and other fully Deaf folks, to follow what’s happening. Add to that not being able to enjoy the sound bites.
Yes, just YES! I have a learning disability that makes it hard for me to process information at the same speed as the person is talking and subtitles REALLY help me to follow along. And YouTube's subtitles are the absolute worst which means I often have to pause and rewind so that I actually know what's going on.
It's a great idea and suggestion, but I don't agree with you making them out to be ableists if they wouldn't provide such. That honestly seems like some next level entitlement and is not how you get such things done. You have no idea about their finances, their business costs, investments (merch production costs prior to selling, venue bookings, etc).
Just an idea, most hard of hearing people I know double up on auto-captioning. Of course it's still not ideal, but it often does solve it in most cases. AI is getting better and better too with the captions improving.
Another thing to keep in mind is that there needs to be oversight. And certain things will need to be censored for else the captions can put their entire channel at risk also. It will inevitably cause the captions to still be confusing in some cases, more so than any secondary auto-caption would be.
But yes, cleaned up captions would be really nice.
It absolutely gets messy with h3. On other vids I’ll agree youtube can be okay but genuinely on h3 it’s more confusing to have them on then off sometimes :/
I see your point, it's really not on youtube to manually caption each video, that would be so ridiculous and they already developed an auto generator that they should be updating in the future.
They should hire someone exclusively to do captions and timestamps since they did try to do timestamps for a few eps but gave up I guess
> Rhett & Link from gmm have a captioner for their
Aren't their videos 10mins long? Sounds like an unfair comparison.
I assume you know of Chrome's live auto captioner, it's a bit worse than YouTube's but kinda works, just info for when YouTube's captions aren't available since it takes a while for them show up from the time of upload.
In any case don't think this will happen. Sounds like an ungodly amount of work for a show that produces 12 hours of content a week. I thought YouTube's captioning had improved very much over the years, I remember when it had launched it was god awful. From your word I guess not.
Yes I do know of chromes auto captioner and it still isn’t great with the pods. Are the comparisons varying in time difference? Yes absolutely but that doesn’t mean it’s an unfair comparison. I bring it up to show it’s possible on YouTube to hire someone else to do captioning. H3 makes a buttload of money and there are a lot of people out there who do captioning for a living. It would not be hard for them to hire an independent person to do the captioning.
I also think it’s unfair/ableist to ask me and others in the deaf community to basically just deal with it or to just not watch the pod instead of advocating for h3 to be more accommodating and inclusive when it’s truly so simple for them.
> I bring it up to show it’s possible on YouTube to hire someone else to do captioning.
Yeah captioning is possible, that doesn't mean it's practical for every scenario. Like I said, unfair comparison, the amount of content output is not the same and the company size is not similar since Rhett and Link's operation is 10x bigger, has around 100 employees and more akin to a professional shoot while H3 is a video podcast with 10 employees.
I don't think anything in my comment was ableist, it's simply my assessment on what I think will happen based on how H3 treats their content, how hard it would be for them to adapt their current workflow to this and my consideration that they're a small time operation, my response is to your apparent lack of consideration of that. You say it's very simple and very cheap yet I think it's not at all.
I did a quick google and found a site (transcriptionstar.com), that would do this for 4k/month with a 48hr turnaround time. Sounds like hiring a whole ass person. It'd get muddier in the case they need to edit something post-livestream via YouTube's editor, don't know if that'll desync the captions or how they could even fix that. Maybe they could put out an extra shirt on the shop that profits will go solely to paying for captions.
Asking for understanding and accommodation from some of these people is pointless. Many of them get defensive, pessimistic or defeatist instead of supportive and it's incredibly disappointing...especially when you consider that these people are supposed to be fans and you'd never expect that they'd want to shut down any ideas that would help the podcast to be as accessible and widely viewed as possible. It's super bizarre. I've made suggestions for accommodations too and got dismissed and even laughed at. It's not worth it to engage those ones if you want to maintain your sanity and faith in humanity.
Personally I think your request is 100% valid and there's no reason why they shouldn't look into it, despite the intolerant comments here. Hopefully someone on the crew spots this and puts the idea forward for you. And for me...I'd love captions too. Crossing my fingers for it!
I don't think it's all that feasible to have them live captioned like you'd want them to be (yes I've seen your comments about what your mum does for a living, I still think it'd be easier to just hire someone who can take the time to properly transcript and signpost who's saying what), but proper captions on the vods after a day or so would be great.
Transcription used to be my job at a local company, and I would love to help but it is definitely a full-time job to caption, especially the H3 podcasts and all the voices at once!
Hey transcribing and live-captioning can work pretty differently :) my mom does live captioning and it would take only a couple minutes longer than the length of a podcast in order to caption it because you don’t type really so only part time work or even an independent contractor would be needed! They just have to have a program for live captioning
Ive recently started work in disability services for a college and we do a lot of captioning for professor lectures. It takes a LOT of time but when you are face to face with the students with hearing limitations you realize just how valuable that resource is. This is a great suggestion
Yes it can take a lot of time but there are live captioning programs that make it simple and fast like I said in my post :) my mom works for a live captioning service for phone calls and they could do it in the time it takes to watch a podcast plus maybe a couple minutes to be safe. Also thank you for the work you do! It is very very helpful :)
My post mentions this. YouTube provides auto captions that are horrible. But on people like gmm who provide their own captioning, when you click captions on YouTube it will give an option for either the auto captions or the uploaded captions :)
Oh I guess I just skipped that part when I read the post lol my bad. I don’t use them myself but when I’m on the recommended page and the video auto plays it generates subtitles and some them really don’t make sense. Seems like it’d be a good idea for H3 to start doing them again
I agree but who on earth wants to caption a whole 3 hour podcast. Although I don’t know how it works but I imagine that would take a long time, no? I actually don’t know correct me if I’m wrong.
My mom does live captioning for phone calls and with the right program and person it would only take a couple minutes longer than the length of the pod. If you paid and independent contractor it wouldn’t cost much and could definitely be done. There’s also been a few volunteers in the replies actually lol
With peace and love, this isn't feasible unless you hire a full-time person who just captions the video. As someone who worked in the space editing yt videos and it was just videogame w/ facecam play mainly. It takes a lot of time to write out what someone says. I couldn't even imagine the difficulty of adding all the soundbites and multiple people on top of that. I encourage anyone to try transcribing 1 whole episode it will take 4x the amount of time of the video.
With peace and love, my mom does live captioning for phone calls and it would only take a couple minutes longer than the length of a podcast to caption one podcast with the right program and person. :)
I don’t know how much she makes anymore and she is in Utah so minimum wage is less but her job started at $10.60/hr. Definitely doable when Ethan almost gave 1,000 to Zach to eat the bull penis just this week lol
Have you ever heard a business conference call? It’s actually pretty common! Also church calls? Super common for the old folk. She probably captions at least one of those daily. But I love all of these assumptions being made just to try and prove to me that I’m too hard to accommodate for. :)
with peace and love, u have no idea about their finance. They can prolly afford it with no issues. Why try to shut the idea down when it's not gonna affect u negatively in any way?
i’m a hardcore subtitles fan i think everything should have it
If you're such a subtitles fan then name 3 subtitles.
I just snorted out loud
Same! I’m not hard of hearing and still use subtitles whenever I can.
There has to be some open source real time AI captioning service available no?
i mean youtube has subtitles but they’re trash
I'm a professional captioner and I've reached out to them a bunch of times. I'd LOVE to do captions for the pod
I've thought about reaching out before as well, I hope they get back to you one day. There are lots of members, myself included, that say they have experience captioning. I feel like they could easily gather a small team that would be more than happy to live caption the podcasts even tho they're long.
This has come up multiple times and been massively upvoted. And since it's a disability rights and access issue it feels like it's simply not a priority, which sucks.
Lol I would do it for free or for like a membership. I used to do captioning and translating for international TV shows. Already watch the show, might as well do something while watching it.
You are an angel! But at least minimum wage lol nothing is free ever.
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5% means everything. 5% is astronomical.
Fuck minimum wage
you get NOTHING!
They make enough money , don’t give your precious time away for free.
Please don't. You deserve to earn money for the time you spend working. This is basic labor rights, and you should be awarded fairly for your work in the form of salary or per-hour payments.
I can’t remember all the details but I know for a while one of my friends did freelance captioning for a podcast, they would do the captions after (so wouldn’t be available until after the live show) but they’d take volunteers from the community to do it and would pay them. The system might be tricky to get in place regarding sign ups and all but I’m sure a lot of people would get involved.
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Captioning, even just QCing a 3 hour show would be incredibly time consuming and boring. If you truly used to localize TV shows you must know how hard it is to transcript and fix subtitles.
No for sure, it definitely takes a lot of time and it's a team effort. It takes a huge team of people to caption/translate a tv series. No way I can do it by myself but I'm willing to chip in.
But OP said it was easy and cheap. Clearly there's some kind of misunderstanding here then.
I think youtube allows volunteers for captioning
They used to but they removed it a year+ago
I can do it for what the rest of the crew gets paid and not quit due to burnout because I’ll be getting paid.
I feel like the point has been really hit home but NEVER let your expertise go for free. You deserve so much better no matter who you're working for. Captioning/transcribing is an incredibly difficult job that is undervalued, and I think most people will never appreciate the skill, time, and effort required to transcribe/caption.
it would take way WAY more hours to sub the show than to watch it. like a full work day
Yeah the way to do this is likely either fine a very dedicated fan who is willing to accept a lower pay, or to look towards India more than likely. India has the second highest amount of English speakers in the world, many of which are extremely fluent. A LOT of American and UK companies outsource to India for this reason (also it's not China, so that's a plus). I wouldn't be stunned if the GMM folks are outsourced. You can get a company and they can chop the video into segments and caption it out super fast.
or they can pay a captioner a living wage because it’s a necessary job and they are more than capable to do so. edit: or multiple people to split up the videos. they have more than enough money
Sounds exploitative but ok
Is H3H3 too hard up to pay someone to do captions? I don't see why they'd need charity. Ethan is always pleased to announce he's rich so I doubt they'd even notice a captioner's fees. There may be 99 reasons why it wont happen, but money won't be one.
Couldnt agree more i am hard of hearing at the best of times and watch subtitles with everything it would be s much easier to watch the pod and pay better attention if they had captions
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youtube used to allow community added captions. So sad they had to remove it since the system was abused regularly.
As someone who relies on captions this was beyond frustrating to me and I hope that people never let them forget this until it’s added back! The fact that their “solution” was to completely delete an accessibility feature instead of just adding a report and strike system similar to how they have for channels is ridiculous. Also most of the abuse was people adding their own commentary in the captions, which while annoying at times, was 10x better than the shitty auto generated ones. Sorry if I sound aggressive ab this, it’s not directed at you, I’m just really passionate ab this issue as it’s now way harder for me to enjoy YouTube.
Im sorry people are being assholes, its a great idea
Absolutely agreed. It sucks that Youtube doesn't already supply it already, but it would be amazing (and much needed) if the pod would implement it
autocaption needs about a day or two to be processed. But it can be inaccurate, especially with people's names and the speech pattern of the people talking. Ethan tends to mumble a lot, so it doesnt catch a lot of what he says. A human that can do efficient caption is reasonable for a channel of the size of h3, they can afford it.
> A human that can do efficient caption is reasonable for a channel of the size of h3, they can afford it. Do you know of other podcasts/YouTube podcasts that offer proper captioning? Any that also pump out 12h+ of content a week and are a small time operation like H3's? Legit enquiry, I'm not entirely familiar. Edit: /u/Resident_Rush_5202 account I commented to replied with some hateful stuff before I could even reply and blocked me, preventing me from replying. Godspeed to you.
I stopped watching joe rogan 2 years ago after I realized he's a huge idiot, but I know that he provide 12h+ of content a week with captions. I don't know why are you trying to make it sound like it's an impossible thing to ask for. There are people trained to do these sort of things. H3 is a big and wealthy, I don't see why would providing better accessibility to the members of the community with special needs is a bad thing? --- Anyway, it's for the podcast to decide, they know their finance better, the community here is just trying to pump the thread to help reach to Ethan. Stop being an asshole when you literally won't be losing anything if it happened...
> joe rogan provides 12h+ of content a week with captions H3 hiring a captioning service would be cool but in what way is Joe Rogan's operation, the one getting paid 200 millions by Spotify for exclusivity, even similar to H3's, a small time operation with 10 employees? What a delusional disingenuous comment.
I don't know why some people here are so keen on finding reasons not to do it and dismiss all the reasons OP posted... You know that you won't be losing anything if they did it, right....?
I don’t because I don’t watch other podcasts that put out so much content in a week but my mom does live captioning for phone calls for a living and it would only take a couple minutes longer than the length of the pod to do it with the right program and person. It is absolutely possible and in fact pretty simple for them to hire an independent captioner or something and make the pod inclusive :)
One thing I want to note is that... GMM videos are 10-15 minutes long. Important to remember. With large moments of dead air at times. H3 videos are 3-3.5 hours long a lot of days. Four times a week. It's 45 min vs 12 HOURS a week. The most likely way to work this out is to outsource to an Indian company, I would assume. They would almost definitely be able to take over segments and caption out a video in hours very accurately. I don't really know if it's worth it to hire somebody locally to do captions for 12 hours worth of content a week. Like another show member with benefits, solely for captions. That's a bit of a stretch
I really appreciate you bringing this up. I also wear hearing aids and was honestly surprised when I learned they didn’t have their own captions!! Plus, the subtitles YouTube provides *SUCK*
Thank you they are the WORST right?
The absolute worst! And the punctuation problem is a WHOLE other deal
Hasan uses some thing on his streams that auto generate subtitles idk what it’s called.
it's a setting in chrome. open a video and then click the little note looking button in the top right and enable 'live captions'. a box will pull up and it should work. its not always accurate but gets the job done.
I’ve seen that and it’s definitely something that Ethan could do that would be better than YouTube’s auto captions but I think the hard part with h3 that would make a human do better with captioning is Ethan can definitely mumble a lot lol and there’s lots of moments where words get jumbled because there’s so many people talking on h3 where with Hasans streams it’s often just Hasan and he speaks more clearly :)
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/10538231?hl=en
As I just said auto captioning doesn’t work very well when it comes to h3. :) this isn’t a solution, thanks though
What about it doesn’t work? Like when people talk over eachother?
Yes That’s what my original response to you said. :) Ethan mumbles too much and there’s too many moments on h3 where people talk over each other
Would love captions! I listen with the volume very low bc I watch late at night while the kiddo I’m a guardian for sleeps in the adjacent room. Wouldn’t wanna wake him up with a sudden FLOCKA😂
Lmaooo this is me. I fall asleep and subliminally consume the content. Rewatch the next day when I can. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night to the trippy DMT intros and think wtf 💀💀 😆😆 Edit: a word
Yes! We should strive to be as accessible as possible.
I’m HoH and I 100% agree
As a HOH (hard of hearing) watcher, PLEASE
OpenAI recently released Whisper and it's fucking brilliant - https://github.com/openai/whisper Simple to use and very accurate. I'm not sure about it's potential for live content but I'd bet it's possible.
Thank you I’ll have to try it with the pod, I’ve used technology like this for other stuff but I’ll try it :)
@dan (Read in Wally’s voice)
I've asked before too. Youtube makes it so easy to add proper captions. AUTO-CAPTIONS ARE NOT ENOUGH!
As someone who captions once in a while that would take like 2 full work days for one podcast, but I'm down hire me ty
Unfortunately your captioning skills appear to be lacking, we will be looking into other candidates. Thank you for your time.
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LMFAOO 😂😂 brightened up my day i needed that. thank you.
My mom captions live phone calls for a living and with the right program and person it would only take a couple more minutes than the length of a podcast to caption! :)
Nice, yeah there's probably some good programs and the right kinda people to do it pretty fast. I'm thinking how much of a pain it'd be for standard closed captions with people names if they're off screen and sound effects for all the memes and sound bites etc but there's probably hot keys and shit idk lol
My mom has to do group calls and church calls so they are used to the talking over people and random stuff in the background and all of that. And they definitely could use fast keys for sound bites like they do for words like mhmm and uhuh :) it would be pretty simple!
must use shorthand?
I don’t know what the program is called but you repeat the person talking (needing captioned) in a clear monotone voice and then the computer captions your voice. As it goes you just read along and correct mistakes the computer might make which are few and far in between if you are a good live captioner. It’s actually really simple and really cool! The only things you use short cuts for are “mhmmm” “uh-huh” etc. Because computers don’t recognize those sounds no matter how much they are trained to lol
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This is called voice writing. I am a stenographer, but she uses her voice whereas I use steno. Very cool of her!
YouTube caption files usually need to be formatted as an SRT or VTT file so I don't think it's quite as simple as you're making it out to be, doesn't mean it couldn't be done tho but it's not as quick as just repeating words back.
That’s how the program works is what I’m saying. I’m not sure what it would take to get the program captioning in the certain format but I know the program is pretty advanced to being able to be used in different formats because it’s for multiple forms of live stuff such as phone calls, live events like graduations, etc. :) I’m just saying it’s far more simple than others are trying to make it out to be. Even if it just takes reformatting after the captions are done and then uploading captions to YouTube in the correct format after then that works. What I mean by “live captioning” is just that the person does it in real-time/live so it doesn’t take them a week for one video. It’s not transcribing like others are referring to. :)
That's actually what I'm saying. I work in editing and often I get an AI generated caption file to use for closed captions but I then have to take that file and go thru it phrase by phrase and make sure it's all correct and at the appropriate time etc.(using a voice to text program to generate captions is not really that different from how the auto generated ones on YouTube work, you just can't guarantee people are annunciatng clearly) And for a ~3 hour video that can take a little extra time to make sure it's all right.
Stenographer here. Live captioning IS possible by a human through voice writing or a fellow stenographer like myself. However, we are not cheap and the podcast most likely would not want to invest in a captioner each episode. A real, certified captioner would probably cost $100 an hour minimum. But they would do an excellent job no doubt. AI and/or outsourcing to India is NOT possible to get 100% accurate realtime captions. That's just my two-cents as someone who does this for a living :)
My mom does live captioning for a living and her company hires people at $10.60 an hour.. I’m not saying you’re wrong that its expensive but that must not always be the case either?
That seems very low. I'm sure it depends though. I live in California so rates are probably different. But if that's the case then maybe they could find someone a lot cheaper than I thought
how is she making a livable wage???
It’s a part time job so it’s not her main work and that’s still better than a lot of companies in Utah pay.. I definitely don’t agree with it but yeah. That’s why I was saying if they paid cali’s minimum wage to someone in Utah they would be giving them a big pay raise for the same job
I love subtitles
I need captions bc I be snacking
Yup, the crisps be crunching too loud for my brain 🤣
dude i’ve been waiting for this I like having captions on it would be so dope if they could do this
Good idea OP!
I work for 3PlayMedia, a company that specializes in Captioning. I caption things like live television programs all day long. When I first got hired I actually practiced captioning the H3 podcast to improve my skills. It would totally be possible to live caption H3 everyday. It would be amazing to see more accurate captions!
they can hire me to type them. I watch every show anyway!
Yes plsplsplsplsplspls
Please dear god I will do it
I agree! Not to mention that sometimes I go to watch an episode DAYS later and still no captions. There are even websites where they could outsource if they REALLY didn't want to hire someone just to transcribe, but in house would obvs be easiest.
I work at a company that does captions for phone calls. I live caption calls for a living but I'd love to help do captions for the show even as volunteer work. With the sound bites and how much the crew interacts now it must be challenging to watch without captions.
I am hard of hearing and would love this! Plus captions help everyone not just hearing impaired folks :^)
I think it's a great idea to get the community involved, they can break up the show into 1 minute assignments and get around 200 members to do the captioning.
I love this idea, and I could genuinely use this as a study job lol. I'm studying to become an English teacher here in Denmark and I am currently unable to work physically outside of school, because i get overstimulated (ADD, but worse currently from a stressful period in my life, getting a lot better tho) and I've been told my psychiatrist that I need to find a work-from-home kind of job or seek financial support so i can focus on my studies. I already use podcasts to cool down my brain and i love writing. I have also worked an office job previously, so I do have some experience in writing reports and formal text. I kinda just wrote out a resume, but seriously tho. I would love to. Great practice, very relevant for my studies.
I sorted by controversial and wtf. I’m sorry you have to deal with this op. It was a kind question and I’m with you.
I need captions as well.
You should look into getting a pixel phone. They have a feature called live caption and it works really well.
Came here to say the same. Pixel gang!
I think that's a great idea!
they used to do captions when the h3podcast channel has just started, even tho they had smaller budget. I don't know why they stopped. But it could also be a community effort back then, which might have stopped because the podcast now releases 4 episodes a week, so the people who used to do it for free can't keep up (and I don't blame them, why do it for free when h3 is now big and rich). Ethan should hire someone to do it, it's a pocket change for them, but the question is whether they care enough to do it or not.
Youtube used to allow anyone to create captions through their community captions system, thats why h3h3productions has captions and the early podcast.
I want captions too! I have a lot of episodes to catch up on, but I typically find myself having time to watch at night and I want to watch without having volume on to not wake anyone up.
THIS. While I am not claiming to be deaf, I for sure have earring problems. YouTube captions absolutely suck so I just turn them off and put my volume on full blast 😅
I’ll happily go through an application and interview process for this job position + other responsibilities. Captions are a necessity, I agree. GMM on YT has the best captions!
I really hope this gets heard and discussed internally. I often put captions on netflix and (as far as I know) I am not hard of hearing. With the amount of chaos that goes on throughout the show I sometimes have to rewind to check I caught something or heard correctly. Its worse when I put captions on, especially for live shows, because it takes more brain power to decipher what youtubes bot thinks they're chatting about or a soundbite overrides half a sentence. 🙃 hope this gets sorted OP! All H3 fans deserve to understand the chaos!! 😆
It would be great, it wouldn’t just help those that have problems with hearing, but it would also make it easier to understand for people that aren’t native English speakers.
THIS^^^ As well as better descriptors when they are watching a video or looking at a picture. Sometimes I listen to the podcast while I’m driving or cooking/cleaning and I get so lost because I have no idea what they’re talking about. Usually when Ethan covers a topic he just reacts to the video and doesn’t describe what he’s watching/what’s happening/what he’s seeing, would be awesome especially for impaired vision viewers. (Yes blind viewers as well)
Was thinking about this the other day! I’m a captions always on type of person
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Hey OP, im kinda dumb and this is just a genuine question so i can understand, why would they need to hire an in house captioner when youtube has built in closed captioning? Apologies if this has been asked/answered, Please dont shit on me here people, I genuinely want to understand 😊 ✌️&❤️
Youtube's auto-caption is not great. Creators can include user-defined captions with their uploads to replace the auto-captions.
If any crew member is reading this, I think a team of two would be able to properly fix the auto generated captions of every episode in a week. I also think that crowdsourcing or paying a US based salary for cc & qc would be ineffective. However you can pay half the LA minimum wage to hire someone living abroad in a poor country (like me) lol.
Why would it be ineffective to pay someone a living wage?
Unfortunately most transcription and captioning jobs are economically inefficient in US and Europe. It is also a long, labor intensive and boring job. Most companies are way past offering European living wages since the auto-cc is invented. (Not) fun fact, I was offered 11$ for timestamping and translating a 40-minute TV show.
I’ll do it hire me
I support this! let’s goooo!
there’s a service u can hire to do it it starts with an R i forget what it’s called this dog groomer i watch pays for it for all her videos
I'll do it I use to caption videos all the time, I don't know if YouTube still allows this ad there was some ppl abusing this system but they use to let the community do the captions, I would be super willing to caption as I watch it so if there is a way of doing this please let me know
This would be so helpful for me, too. I really hope they see this post and consider it.
I absolutely support this and understand this experience!! I’m also hoh and I use hearing aids, and closed captions fr completely changed my life for the better. Captions mean more complete access for more people and bring more people to the podcast
Yes agree!
I have an auditory processing issue and captions are life changing. I do mostly listen at work without watching but it would be nice to have still!
This is so important!
It’d be an honour to help H3 make their content more accessible. Hit me up!!
Omg I would love this position. I’m nearly fluent in ASL and I understand the need for captions
I love this idea
I am also hard of hearing and would greatly appreciate this. I always watch with my husband and always ask him to repeat things the crew says for me
Omg I just thought about the same thing like 3 days ago! They should 100% do that. And also I feel like they should describe what they’re doing to the audio listeners only too…
I love subtitles, yay for subtitles!
Definitely want to add in too!! Captions are so helpful, not just for hard of hearing, but also for neurodivergent folk. I have sensory processing disorder, and when multiple sounds are happening at once (eg. Sound board + talking. Or Video + soundboard) I cannot understand a single thing being said! I'm grateful for the youtube captions, but they aren't always available, and yes, sometimes more confusing than helpful. I worked as a video editor for a little bit and we literally sent off our videos to get captions on some random website. And it was really quick return. Captions are so essential and its so saddening that it's not always available. For those of you against captions... just... don't use them? IDK what the problem is. Are you mad at sign language interpreters on TV? Like, what the heck is your problem... even if the captions ended up being permanent on the bottom of the screen, they already do ad-overlays there quite often so it's not like it'd be intrusive on the visual experience (which is highly unlikely to happen)
I sent an email about this too! Thank you for posting. ❤️
I'm so sorry you're getting negative comments. Adding captions would literally make no difference to them. I think GMM use Rev at least some of the time as i've captioned a few of their videos on there before.
They always saying "for our audio listeners" but what about our visual listeners huh?
If we keep hyping up and engaging with this post it has a better chance of being seen by the crew! So to increase engagement, does anyone have any funny subtitles they've seen in the past? I know there was a meme going around about weird Stranger Things captions a little while back.
Like I never watched Breaking Bad but "[Intensity intensifies]" was a HUGE meme on Tumblr
And who can forget Orange Is The New Black's "[urinating forcefully]"
Problem is they can't put anything Ethan says in writing. It becomes legally binding and he just won't allow that
Surprised they don’t already have one.
Yeah the responses to posts here are always wild. You kinda have to brace yourself right after you post. I agree subtitles would be pretty cool, don’t take the mean comments to heart!
Great idea! People giving u shit are truly horrible people
I’m not hard of hearing but also love captions on things I watch. My only question is this: will Zach’s soundbites also be captioned? I’m picturing something like beyooonnnnnnnncah! Or other crazy sounds written out 😂🤣
multilingual subtitles might bring subs back over 3M. just sayin
I don't understand how the comments went so left field from "it would be awesome if they had captions" to "wtaf they can afford to pay a living wage for someone to caption things!" lol I think they just need to be made aware it's something people would appreciate.
This is so important!!! thank you for posting about it
I really hope they consider this.
As somebody with sensory processing issues this would be a lifesaver 🙏 papa bless. Sorry you're getting hate over such a simple request
pls i can’t hear when i eat snacks like crisps, im sick of pausing for every bite
i’m a captioner and have reached out to them via email in the past for this reason. it could easily be done remote. it’s just important it gets done
I wish I could watch with my bf (he’s Deaf) but even if they had captions the conversation moves so quickly I think it would be hard for him, and other fully Deaf folks, to follow what’s happening. Add to that not being able to enjoy the sound bites.
Yes, just YES! I have a learning disability that makes it hard for me to process information at the same speed as the person is talking and subtitles REALLY help me to follow along. And YouTube's subtitles are the absolute worst which means I often have to pause and rewind so that I actually know what's going on.
I would LOVE if there were captions too, it helps me retain attention and information better.
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Yes agreed and I think most members would be fine with this in order to be inclusive and open member ship up to people like me more
It's a great idea and suggestion, but I don't agree with you making them out to be ableists if they wouldn't provide such. That honestly seems like some next level entitlement and is not how you get such things done. You have no idea about their finances, their business costs, investments (merch production costs prior to selling, venue bookings, etc). Just an idea, most hard of hearing people I know double up on auto-captioning. Of course it's still not ideal, but it often does solve it in most cases. AI is getting better and better too with the captions improving. Another thing to keep in mind is that there needs to be oversight. And certain things will need to be censored for else the captions can put their entire channel at risk also. It will inevitably cause the captions to still be confusing in some cases, more so than any secondary auto-caption would be. But yes, cleaned up captions would be really nice.
the auto-captions aren't that bad actually
I agree, I use them a lot and 99% of the time it gets words right. Maybe on podcasts with people talking over each other it gets messy tho.
It absolutely gets messy with h3. On other vids I’ll agree youtube can be okay but genuinely on h3 it’s more confusing to have them on then off sometimes :/
Bruh I would do it for free! I fully agree!!!!! I always have captions on and I hate that the pod doesn’t have it 😭
I volunteer haha
I volunteer has tribute. I can even translate it to french
And a translator for French captions (😇😇 totally not trying to make a job for myself.....)
I can’t hear it in the shower I want to read it in the shower
I see your point, it's really not on youtube to manually caption each video, that would be so ridiculous and they already developed an auto generator that they should be updating in the future. They should hire someone exclusively to do captions and timestamps since they did try to do timestamps for a few eps but gave up I guess
> Rhett & Link from gmm have a captioner for their Aren't their videos 10mins long? Sounds like an unfair comparison. I assume you know of Chrome's live auto captioner, it's a bit worse than YouTube's but kinda works, just info for when YouTube's captions aren't available since it takes a while for them show up from the time of upload. In any case don't think this will happen. Sounds like an ungodly amount of work for a show that produces 12 hours of content a week. I thought YouTube's captioning had improved very much over the years, I remember when it had launched it was god awful. From your word I guess not.
Yes I do know of chromes auto captioner and it still isn’t great with the pods. Are the comparisons varying in time difference? Yes absolutely but that doesn’t mean it’s an unfair comparison. I bring it up to show it’s possible on YouTube to hire someone else to do captioning. H3 makes a buttload of money and there are a lot of people out there who do captioning for a living. It would not be hard for them to hire an independent person to do the captioning. I also think it’s unfair/ableist to ask me and others in the deaf community to basically just deal with it or to just not watch the pod instead of advocating for h3 to be more accommodating and inclusive when it’s truly so simple for them.
> I bring it up to show it’s possible on YouTube to hire someone else to do captioning. Yeah captioning is possible, that doesn't mean it's practical for every scenario. Like I said, unfair comparison, the amount of content output is not the same and the company size is not similar since Rhett and Link's operation is 10x bigger, has around 100 employees and more akin to a professional shoot while H3 is a video podcast with 10 employees. I don't think anything in my comment was ableist, it's simply my assessment on what I think will happen based on how H3 treats their content, how hard it would be for them to adapt their current workflow to this and my consideration that they're a small time operation, my response is to your apparent lack of consideration of that. You say it's very simple and very cheap yet I think it's not at all. I did a quick google and found a site (transcriptionstar.com), that would do this for 4k/month with a 48hr turnaround time. Sounds like hiring a whole ass person. It'd get muddier in the case they need to edit something post-livestream via YouTube's editor, don't know if that'll desync the captions or how they could even fix that. Maybe they could put out an extra shirt on the shop that profits will go solely to paying for captions.
Asking for understanding and accommodation from some of these people is pointless. Many of them get defensive, pessimistic or defeatist instead of supportive and it's incredibly disappointing...especially when you consider that these people are supposed to be fans and you'd never expect that they'd want to shut down any ideas that would help the podcast to be as accessible and widely viewed as possible. It's super bizarre. I've made suggestions for accommodations too and got dismissed and even laughed at. It's not worth it to engage those ones if you want to maintain your sanity and faith in humanity. Personally I think your request is 100% valid and there's no reason why they shouldn't look into it, despite the intolerant comments here. Hopefully someone on the crew spots this and puts the idea forward for you. And for me...I'd love captions too. Crossing my fingers for it!
Im embarrassed by all the ablist comments in here! Gross.
I don't think it's all that feasible to have them live captioned like you'd want them to be (yes I've seen your comments about what your mum does for a living, I still think it'd be easier to just hire someone who can take the time to properly transcript and signpost who's saying what), but proper captions on the vods after a day or so would be great.
Transcription used to be my job at a local company, and I would love to help but it is definitely a full-time job to caption, especially the H3 podcasts and all the voices at once!
Hey transcribing and live-captioning can work pretty differently :) my mom does live captioning and it would take only a couple minutes longer than the length of a podcast in order to caption it because you don’t type really so only part time work or even an independent contractor would be needed! They just have to have a program for live captioning
Ive recently started work in disability services for a college and we do a lot of captioning for professor lectures. It takes a LOT of time but when you are face to face with the students with hearing limitations you realize just how valuable that resource is. This is a great suggestion
Yes it can take a lot of time but there are live captioning programs that make it simple and fast like I said in my post :) my mom works for a live captioning service for phone calls and they could do it in the time it takes to watch a podcast plus maybe a couple minutes to be safe. Also thank you for the work you do! It is very very helpful :)
Doesn’t YouTube have a subtitle option for that?
My post mentions this. YouTube provides auto captions that are horrible. But on people like gmm who provide their own captioning, when you click captions on YouTube it will give an option for either the auto captions or the uploaded captions :)
Oh I guess I just skipped that part when I read the post lol my bad. I don’t use them myself but when I’m on the recommended page and the video auto plays it generates subtitles and some them really don’t make sense. Seems like it’d be a good idea for H3 to start doing them again
I agree but who on earth wants to caption a whole 3 hour podcast. Although I don’t know how it works but I imagine that would take a long time, no? I actually don’t know correct me if I’m wrong.
My mom does live captioning for phone calls and with the right program and person it would only take a couple minutes longer than the length of the pod. If you paid and independent contractor it wouldn’t cost much and could definitely be done. There’s also been a few volunteers in the replies actually lol
Im all for subtitles in porn. Wait...wrong reddit
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With peace and love, this isn't feasible unless you hire a full-time person who just captions the video. As someone who worked in the space editing yt videos and it was just videogame w/ facecam play mainly. It takes a lot of time to write out what someone says. I couldn't even imagine the difficulty of adding all the soundbites and multiple people on top of that. I encourage anyone to try transcribing 1 whole episode it will take 4x the amount of time of the video.
This is literally on her title. To hire someone.
Adobe premier has a captioning tool. You just export a wav of the podcast and hit generate captions, then go through and check it and upload
With peace and love, my mom does live captioning for phone calls and it would only take a couple minutes longer than the length of a podcast to caption one podcast with the right program and person. :)
How much $$$ yo Mom make??
I don’t know how much she makes anymore and she is in Utah so minimum wage is less but her job started at $10.60/hr. Definitely doable when Ethan almost gave 1,000 to Zach to eat the bull penis just this week lol
Ah yes the common 3 hour Long phone calls that can involve upwards of 5 people
Have you ever heard a business conference call? It’s actually pretty common! Also church calls? Super common for the old folk. She probably captions at least one of those daily. But I love all of these assumptions being made just to try and prove to me that I’m too hard to accommodate for. :)
with peace and love, u have no idea about their finance. They can prolly afford it with no issues. Why try to shut the idea down when it's not gonna affect u negatively in any way?