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On Youtube I really like the auto-generated captions and often prefer them to the creator's because:

- Sometimes the creator bases their captions on the script and misses changes in edit

- Sometimes the creator's captions are perfect transcriptions but broken up and timed awkwardly

Auto-generated captions aren't always perfect but unlike human captions provide word-by-word timing.

Yeah, I definitely wish other media would experiment with Youtube-style word-at-a-time subtitles. They often feel a lot more natural than full-sentence subtitles, the way they stream in is better at providing "connecting tissue", they never spoil upcoming reveals the way subtitles tend to, etc.

(By "connecting tissue", I mean they don't have the problem where sentence A is "I like chocolate", sentence B is "only on special occasions", and at the time B appears A is completely gone, but you really need A and B to be onscreen at the same time to parse the full meaning intuitively.)

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