sanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoAmazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.lemmy.todayimagemessage-square134linkfedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11imageAmazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.lemmy.todaysanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square134linkfedilink
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoThat’s either “sign language doesn’t work with our speech-to-text algorithm and we’ll be throat fucked if we hire an actual person to do a job” or some massively pretentious statement about accessibility in media.
minus-squareArchimedes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoOne masquerading as the other
minus-squarearc99@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoMore likely it’s a technical goof, somebody not folding the full English (and other language) subtitles into the streaming container.
That’s either “sign language doesn’t work with our speech-to-text algorithm and we’ll be throat fucked if we hire an actual person to do a job” or some massively pretentious statement about accessibility in media.
One masquerading as the other
More likely it’s a technical goof, somebody not folding the full English (and other language) subtitles into the streaming container.