Jodie Whittaker's 'Doctor Who' interview contains spectacular subtitle error

Subtitles, whether they come from a machine or a fast-typing human, can often be an accident waiting to happen.

Jodie Whittaker's recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert provides glorious proof of this.

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Her response to Colbert's question about where she's from, for instance, was: "I am from Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire."

Here's how that sentence appeared in the subtitles, though:

A valiant attempt by the American subtitler.pic.twitter.com/EiVJOcvV0U

— (((Dotski))) (@dotski_w) October 4, 2018

Oh dear.

It isn't 100% clear whether those subtitles were written by a human or generated by an algorithm, but either way the result is pretty spectacular. Read more...

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