Funny YouTube Caption Fails: The 15 Most Outrageous Subtitle Snafus (PHOTOS)

Earlier this month, YouTube turned on captions for millions of videos on its site.

The auto-caption feature, which is intended to make videos more accessible to deaf viewers as well as non-English speakers, among others, relies on YouTube's speech-recognition technology that debuted late last year.

It's an interesting idea--but the technology is far from perfect, and its limitations have made some auto-captioned YouTube videos the laughingstock of the web.

We've collected some of the most outrageous subtitle snafus. Check them out int he slideshow below, then send us the best you've seen!

 

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[SharonaMonk]

11:21 PM on 03/29/2010

It'd be funny if it made at least SOME sense. But nonsensical sentences aren't really funny... Ask Sarah Palin.

[rcwhite364]

11:25 PM on 03/29/2010

I'm with SharonaMonk...nonsense isn't funny, and these captions make as much sense as Sarah Palin. And she isn't funny, either...she's pathetic.

[GrownupStewie]

09:40 PM on 03/29/2010

ofcourse gays have to have good jobs, how else do you suppose they can afford those viking stoves, and $10,000 midcentury couche they "just had to have" when they went to the christies auction that one summer day....

[justlw]

08:01 PM on 03/29/2010

Happy? Happy in Paraguay?

[Dionita]

08:00 PM on 03/29/2010

I guess one must be fluent in Geek to "get" the funny out of these ridiculous captions.

[georgiemom26]

06:47 PM on 03/29/2010

Ok I'm gonna say it because no one else has.... I'm only here because SxePhil's in the article LOL DEFRANCO NATION!!

[cjm1000]

04:49 PM on 03/29/2010

this is complete nonsense, nothing funny.

this is worse then reading junkmail, HP your quality factor just dropped a couple notches.

[McCorbin100107]

04:49 PM on 03/29/2010

Reading those makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.

[SharonaMonk]

11:22 PM on 03/29/2010

Now THAT was funny.

[aphid]

12:30 AM on 04/07/2010

LOL

[SilentSolidarity]

03:29 PM on 03/29/2010

Hey. For a program that recognizes words out of ANY video, no matter what format and no matter how cra.ppy the voice, Google made a pretty good job.

[JScott]

02:44 PM on 03/29/2010

What's in the road a head

[temptemp02]

01:38 PM on 03/29/2010

Are these suppose to be funny?

[JohnStuartMill]

02:26 PM on 03/29/2010

According to the headline, yes. However, after reading the captions, I am still looking for the funny.

Perhaps they meant funny-strange and not funny-haha.

[gallimaufry03]

01:09 PM on 03/29/2010

stuff in there good show for sandra bullock's nano eye pawed

[MIMom]

12:24 PM on 03/29/2010

Ummm...these aren't funny. These are just sad. What would have been better would have been publishing what is was SUPPOSED to read next to the mangIed version.

[SharonaMonk]

11:24 PM on 03/29/2010

Yea, I was thinking that too. lol.

[Canuknotusa]

12:05 PM on 03/29/2010

The word is 'failures'.

But 'snafus' also works.

'Fail' is just sophomoric.

[bamaboyinjax]

03:56 PM on 03/29/2010

well yeah...most valuable code and programming is being written by EXTREMELY sophomoric and very young people so what else would the slang be but thus...
Don't let that get under your skin just roll with it because we are witnessing a fundamental change in the way we (people in general) think, work, write, communicate and interact and it is sometimes ugly and in most cases it is hard for those on the outside of it to accept but it IS happening and it is happening EVERYWHERE so "get in where you fit in" and try to enjoy the ride. This bus is rolling on and it won't wait for you or turn around.
To put it in perspective...none of the horses used, from around 1930 back till the domestication of horses and donkeys a few thousand years ago, to transport people and goods made it past 1950. It was the way of progress and we are having another fundamental change in technology again.

Sorry I am a little over bearing from time to time didnt mean to be...

[Canuknotusa]

06:26 PM on 03/29/2010

Ok...
But to compare the use of a noun instead of a verb with the switch from horse and buggy to the automobile is ... um ... a bit much.

Do you remember Valspeak?

Was it much different than technospeak?

[Cramer]

11:48 AM on 03/29/2010

Maybe it's code

[LMPE]

11:25 AM on 03/29/2010

Translation is not an exact science. It's now become even less of one.