Occasional subtitle glitches on BBC One Freesat

I have a Humax Freesat PVR. I don't normally use the subtitles, but
the sound mix on The Body Farm was so bad (speech often indistinct)
that I switched them on.

Occasionally a screen of subtitles would be missing - so if a sentence
was split over two screens, half the sentence was missing - the
previous half just stayed on screen. That's how I know it wasn't an
intentional editorial decision to leaves bits out of the subtitles:
because the result made no sense! Very occasionally the subtitles
would appear and then very quickly disappear.

I've now seen this on other programmes, both recorded and live.

I asked on Digital Spy, and one person claimed to have seen the same
thing, but on BBC channels only.

Anyone else experienced this? Anyone know whether I should be
contacting Humax or the BBC?

Cheers,
David.

On 21/10/2011 16:47, wrote:
I don't normally use the subtitles, but
the sound mix on The Body Farm was so bad (speech often indistinct)
that I switched them on.

Same here.

Occasionally a screen of subtitles would be missing - so if a sentence
was split over two screens, half the sentence was missing - the
previous half just stayed on screen.

That's how it was on my Technika Freeview PVR, so it's not your Humax.

John.

"Another John" wrote in message
...
: On 21/10/2011 16:47, wrote:
: I don't normally use the subtitles, but
: the sound mix on The Body Farm was so bad (speech often
indistinct)
: that I switched them on.
:
: Same here.
:
: Occasionally a screen of subtitles would be missing - so if a
sentence
: was split over two screens, half the sentence was missing -
the
: previous half just stayed on screen.
:
: That's how it was on my Technika Freeview PVR, so it's not your
Humax.
:

The BBC are reportedly having a lot of trouble with their voice
recognition subtitling software, apparently some pigs on a recent
(IIRC) Country File some pigs had a tendency to "nibble on
peoples willies" rather that the /wellies/ the presenter was
actually talking about! :~o
--
Regards, Jerry.

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:37:28 +0100, "Jerry"
wrote:


"Another John" wrote in message
...
: On 21/10/2011 16:47, wrote:
: I don't normally use the subtitles, but
: the sound mix on The Body Farm was so bad (speech often
indistinct)
: that I switched them on.
:
: Same here.
:
: Occasionally a screen of subtitles would be missing - so if a
sentence
: was split over two screens, half the sentence was missing -
the
: previous half just stayed on screen.
:
: That's how it was on my Technika Freeview PVR, so it's not your
Humax.
:

The BBC are reportedly having a lot of trouble with their voice
recognition subtitling software, apparently some pigs on a recent
(IIRC) Country File some pigs had a tendency to "nibble on
peoples willies" rather that the /wellies/ the presenter was
actually talking about! :~o

There's nothing wrong with the voice recognition software. The
presenters need elocution lessons to teach them to speak properly so
that the software can understand them. :-)

Where's Professor Higgins when we need him?



--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

I don't think its just sat, as somone mntiioned it to me about a week ago.
also I've noticed AD where they fade down and up are out of sequence cutting
off the AD. Does anyone at the BBC watch or listen to these extra services,
or do they rely on complaints to fix problems perhaps.










?

Brian

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wrote in message
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I have a Humax Freesat PVR. I don't normally use the subtitles, but
the sound mix on The Body Farm was so bad (speech often indistinct)
that I switched them on.

Occasionally a screen of subtitles would be missing - so if a sentence
was split over two screens, half the sentence was missing - the
previous half just stayed on screen. That's how I know it wasn't an
intentional editorial decision to leaves bits out of the subtitles:
because the result made no sense! Very occasionally the subtitles
would appear and then very quickly disappear.

I've now seen this on other programmes, both recorded and live.

I asked on Digital Spy, and one person claimed to have seen the same
thing, but on BBC channels only.

Anyone else experienced this? Anyone know whether I should be
contacting Humax or the BBC?

Cheers,
David.

Peter Duncanson wrote:

Where's Professor Higgins when we need him?

Personally my attitude to people who say 'universi-y' and
'inteligibili-y' is such that I ask them to either speak properly or
shut up.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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: Peter Duncanson wrote:
:
: Where's Professor Higgins when we need him?
:
: Personally my attitude to people who say 'universi-y' and
: 'inteligibili-y' is such that I ask them to either speak
properly or
: shut up.
:

I hope that you do so in "Standard (Queens) English" and not your
more usual broad Yorkshire accent, otherwise you will just come
over as a bit of a prat at best and a bigoted old fool at
worse...
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Regards, Jerry.

Jerry wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
: Peter Duncanson wrote:
:
: Where's Professor Higgins when we need him?
:
: Personally my attitude to people who say 'universi-y' and
: 'inteligibili-y' is such that I ask them to either speak
properly or
: shut up.
:

I hope that you do so in "Standard (Queens) English" and not your
more usual broad Yorkshire accent, otherwise you will just come
over as a bit of a prat at best and a bigoted old fool at
worse...
There's a difference between a regional accent and sloppy speech.

Bill

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
Jerry wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
: Peter Duncanson wrote:
:
: Where's Professor Higgins when we need him?
:
: Personally my attitude to people who say 'universi-y' and
: 'inteligibili-y' is such that I ask them to either speak
properly or
: shut up.
:

I hope that you do so in "Standard (Queens) English" and not your
more usual broad Yorkshire accent, otherwise you will just come
over as a bit of a prat at best and a bigoted old fool at
worse...
There's a difference between a regional accent and sloppy speech.


but when you add regional dialect words .........

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16

On 22/10/2011 15:02, Bill Wright wrote:
Jerry wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
: Peter Duncanson wrote:
:
: Where's Professor Higgins when we need him?
:
: Personally my attitude to people who say 'universi-y' and
: 'inteligibili-y' is such that I ask them to either speak properly or
: shut up.
:

I hope that you do so in "Standard (Queens) English" and not your more
usual broad Yorkshire accent, otherwise you will just come over as a
bit of a prat at best and a bigoted old fool at worse...
There's a difference between a regional accent and sloppy speech.


True.

But there's an argument that replacing a T with a glottal stop _is_ a
regional accent. Unlike, for example, saying "free" for three.

Andy