K. Praslowicz

Duluth, MN

 

Like a Chinese Star Wars Bootleg...

I’m not sure how long the auto closed captioning feature has been available on YouTube, but I just noticed it today. My first instinct was to go play the Playlist video about my photography with the volume off and auto-generated closed captioning on to experience it like a deaf person.

Given my mud-mouth accent I earned by living in rural Wisconsin for most of my life I didn’t expect much, and it didn’t disappoint. The resulting caption text read like a Chinese Star Wars bootleg, only perhaps a bit more nonsensical.

Depreciating is bright kids Depreciating is bright kids
Depreciating is bright kids

Depreciating is bright kids – I did not know that.

Public issued animals I say? I'm game. Public issued animals I say? I'm game.
Public issued animals I say? I'm game.

Public issued animals I say? I’m game.

What the Garden What the Garden
What the Garden

What the Garden? What. The. Garden.

We're going to wind up seeing car hit more birds We're going to wind up seeing car hit more birds
We're going to wind up seeing car hit more birds

We’re going to wind up seeing car hit more birds. Yeah. I dare you to make that statement with a straight face. You can’t.

Not really the boat Not really the boat
Not really the boat

Not really the boat. Didn’t fool me anyways.

Buckle Fat Buckle Fat
Buckle Fat

No comment.

Hai Hai
Hai

Guess I slipped into speaking LOLcat for a moment.

Lettuce and Tomato Lettuce and Tomato
Lettuce and Tomato

Lettuce and Tomato

1 Archived Comment

samh
samh April 3, 2012, 11:45 PM

I was wondering what in the hell that tweet you made about the cars and the birds was about earlier today. Now I understand… err… well, I don’t understand but I do… sort of…

Google [attempts] to translate all my voicemail into text and sends it to me as email. I give their robots lots of props for trying but they are SO FAR from perfect.