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by matthewbarras 1266 days ago
We have subtitles on all the time for my little boy and can attest that the BBC is very poor - even on iPlayer.

Interesting side note: if ever subtitles are turned off, or we are watching TV elsewhere, me and my wife can't 'hear' well. Even if the volume is up. Like we've untrained our ability...

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Totally agree, the "live" subtitling on BBC is remarkably bad.

It's way worse than even using a cheap computer with open source solutions - it's strange no one at the BBC decides to resolve this as it would be easy and could easily give the public a far better result. Even if you took a hit on the most obscure words, off the shelf would outperform the current process by a country mile.

Surely not, syncapatocaption is infallible.