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-square144linkfedilinkarrow-up1623arrow-down132
arrow-up1591arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square144linkfedilink
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·1 month 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-up12·1 month agoOne masquerading as the other
minus-squarearc99@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month 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.