The subtitling fail debaucle at Swedish TV4
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Jeff Whittaker
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Jul 10, 2015

https://storify.com/kirstenmarie/the-subtitlingfail

[Most of the article is in Swedish]:

"As many of us in the Scandinavian subtitling industry noticed, something odd was going on at TV4's customer service om May 6th 2015. Apparently they admitted - as if this was a completely uncontroversial thing - that computers were doing some of their subtitling. The disc
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https://storify.com/kirstenmarie/the-subtitlingfail

[Most of the article is in Swedish]:

"As many of us in the Scandinavian subtitling industry noticed, something odd was going on at TV4's customer service om May 6th 2015. Apparently they admitted - as if this was a completely uncontroversial thing - that computers were doing some of their subtitling. The discussion spiralled, but later on Twitter subtitling researcher Jan Pedersen of Stockholm Universitet put the record straight as to what happened."

[Edited at 2015-07-10 13:37 GMT]
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