There is a disturbing trend I've noticed, especially with YouTube videos, and their declining caption quality. For the last several years it has been getting worse. It has to be auto-generated, because lately the same 'error' keeps popping up, seemingly at the start of a sound stream.
I will see the words "heat" repeated three times [heat heat heat], then the software will suddenly pick up mid-sentence (usually) what was actually being said. It has made the experience worse, especially while dealing with homonyms. Experienced readers will be able to pick out and disregard these errors, however live broadcasts have their own issues, such as garbage characters and missing entire sentences.
Right now, it's an awful experience. It's a wonder anybody can spell English, because you can't learn it from watching television captions.
Subtitles are a different thing in case you were wondering, that's not what I'm talking about here. Bring back the classic caption interface - humans.
