sanitation@lemmy.today to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoAmazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language.lemmy.todayimagemessage-square147linkfedilinkarrow-up1619arrow-down131
arrow-up1588arrow-down1imageAmazon 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 · 6 days agomessage-square147linkfedilink
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·5 days 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-up12·5 days agoOne masquerading as the other
minus-squarearc99@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days 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.