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Comment by luanfernandes | Hacker News Reader

Hi John, is there any way you can provide subtitles (in english) on this talk? or a transcript? English is not my native language so it's kinda hard to understand everything you say

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Re-upload it to youtube and try the auto-captioning service there.

If I had time I'd listen to what I said and write it down for you.

I'm not sure if this was a snarky reply or not, but you can get pretty cheap english translators on oDesk. Average price is $1/minute of translated material. The accuracy is usually superb, especially considering the price.

What would make you think that was a snarky reply on my part?

Strange. I think it's bleed over connotation from when you ask someone to do something and say something like "have you got that or shall I write it down for you?"

Something about the "write it down for you" is often used in a condescending way.

Yeah, I think this was it. Sorry jgrahamc, I wasn't trying to be insulting. It was just the phrasing with threw me off.

Something about the mix of "I'd listen to what I said" and "I'd write it down for you" just seemed like an unpleasant way to say "sorry I don't have time to transcribe it"

It reads like you're offering a personal transcription service, which would be an unusual thing to see in this context, so it's reasonable to interpret as sarcasm.

I think you might mean transcription.

I'm a native English speaker and found it hard to understand. I think the audio echo makes the sound unclear.

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