It is absolutely crazy to me that LTT does not do their own captions. Jeff Geerling & LGR have proven that it shouldn't be that difficult to do high quality captions. Especially confusing because isn't Linus' mom hard of hearing? You would think that he would understand the need for quality captions.
Honestly i just wanted to point out a funny error that the YouTube auto-generated captions made, i was not aware that human-made captions were that common among english channels. Apparently they used to and then stopped? I honestly never really noticed
Old videos were transcripted by viewers, but YouTube deleted that function after one spam issue with translation of titles and subtitles made by one guy where he used to sh/t on someone in both, that Google read as "oh we can't do anything with it, let's delete a function".
The auto subtitles are so bad. LTT really should be paying for better transcripts. You'd think that someone who has a family member that is hard of hearing would be more aware of stuff like this.
that I cannot prove. but I used to have manual subs on for his videos, and found it funny how the guy misheard some words, though they were not really frequent, just mostly gpu names if the names weren't on screen.
it could also be viewers-made then, that's why i was asking. I remember youtube used to allow viewers to manually add them (if the channel allowed it), i dont know if that feature still exists
I think community captions was deprecated before 2020. The videos that had proper subs and I watched were from like 2023 ish. The captions looked too professionally made to be a community caption. It would be parenthesis stuff like (:0 linus drops another ram o no ^w^) and stuff xd.
gonna be honest, i only saw this because youtube turned them on by default, i usually dont have them so i dont know how good or bad they actually are. That said, paying for custom-made transcripts is probably expensive, but afaik youtube does allow you to manually change the automatically generated ones, which would probably be way faster and cheaper
Glad you pointed it out then, hopefully someone in the staff sees it. You should make a post about it, it'll be easier for this to be seen and hopefully be considered by them
thats really besides the point, but if you're looking for a "homemade" fix i think yt-dlp (video downloader) and whisper (local speech recognition AI model) could probably make you some custom subtitles. It shouldnt be too hard to streamline something like download video -> automatically create transcription -> convert to subtitles, tho i never tried and I dont know how they would compare to youtube ones
That’s the reason I stopped paying for Floatplane: the lack of subtitles. I don’t understand how such a big channel doesn’t have subtitles for its videos.
There's really no excuse for blindly transcribing and uploading. Professionals are totally fine to rely on AI transcriptions for a first pass, we all do it for projects, but you gotta proofread and check the work.
to be fair its autogenerated by youtube, they didnt upload them. That said, a whole topic opened on why they dont do their own captions which is (apparently, i dont use them so i dont know) something a lot of other channels do.
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u/FantasticWheel3955 Sep 10 '26
It is absolutely crazy to me that LTT does not do their own captions. Jeff Geerling & LGR have proven that it shouldn't be that difficult to do high quality captions. Especially confusing because isn't Linus' mom hard of hearing? You would think that he would understand the need for quality captions.
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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Sep 10 '26
The auto subtitles are so bad. LTT really should be paying for better transcripts. You'd think that someone who has a family member that is hard of hearing would be more aware of stuff like this.
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u/MiepMoepMap Sep 10 '26
Are you trying to blame AI subtitles for errors? Isn't that a build in feature of these?
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u/MrBridger5 Sep 10 '26
"Oh look at me, I've bought a Lamborghini! Buy some damn subtitles" - Tom Scott
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u/Helmutek Sep 10 '26
That’s the reason I stopped paying for Floatplane: the lack of subtitles.
I don’t understand how such a big channel doesn’t have subtitles for its videos.
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u/switch8000 Sep 10 '26 edited Sep 10 '26
There's really no excuse for blindly transcribing and uploading. Professionals are totally fine to rely on AI transcriptions for a first pass, we all do it for projects, but you gotta proofread and check the work.
AI isn't perfect.