A lot of the audio production in individual videos is really bad. This isn't anything to do with YouTube per se, not their compression algorithms or other features. A lot of YouTubers have absolutely no concept of microphone placement, of using audio compression, of reducing background noise. All of which are things which will drastically affect audio quality and the ability of a speech-to-text model to create subtitles.

It would be nice if YouTube would normalize all the uploaded videos to one set standard. Note I'm not suggesting that they compress the videos as that might change the intended presentation of professional audio productions. I just mean peak-finding normalization which could be implemented losslessly and without breaking existing video links.

Having said that, when I look at my own channel - and I am not claiming to have great audio; I have a host which would destroy a lavalier microphone in mere seconds. YouTube's subtitling is really good. It automatically switches between English and French and Hebrew, and even with a fair bit of background noise (welding, grinding, cooking, crowd noise, music) it generally gets the text correct. So I don't know what the original complaint is, except that it's not perfect. Well, guess what, neither is human hearing. How about that famous Jimi Hendrix line, "Excuse me while I kiss this guy."

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If I were poorer and were going to have only one computer, it would be a Steam Deck. I might need to mod it a little, but at many times I've made good out of extremely limited computing resources, and it's really not that shabby.

They aren't, at least not on their PCs. 23% of them are using SteamOS, which means almost all Steam Deck users. (The next most common are Arch (8.78%) and CachyOS (8.37%.) Not that I'm complaining about Valve capitalizing on Proton.

A lot of people seem to have trouble distinguishing between "official religion"
and "officially a religion", alas. But with that snickered over, it at least has that latter distinction, disgustingly.

They do crop dusting with drones now. It's cheaper.

I've been using eBay since ... hmm, eBay says May 21, 2000. Part of eBay's charm is that their website is still uncomplicated for its level of functionality. They are essentially commercial Craigslist - no more webshit than is absolutely necessary to do the job. eBay is notable for having a lot of category-specific metadata about products listed on the site, which may or may not be correct but at least gives you something to search on. It's best to do both this and keyword searches because people misspell things and/or misenter the product info.

I've used dispute resolution with eBay several times, and while it has occasionally been irritating, I have generally been able to get back my money.

Which ship is sinking? The real question is how Gamestop stays in business given how ubiquitous home internet access is.

It's quite hilarious for me watching foreign videos where I can't tell what they might have actually said because I lack any context, all I can do is boggle.

I have seen improvement, but it's mostly in the software's ability to pick speech out of noise. The comprehension part is still nonexistent.

Another use for lithium.

Last time I looked, kids went in to sell games and buy used games, and moms went to buy games for kids.

These results have been bouncing around a bit without any apparently explanation, I presume the methodology is variable with time and I don't take the exact numbers too seriously.

That said, this is the best time in history to be a Linux gamer. If you have AMD graphics then your system probably works great. If you have Nvidia, results will probably vary a whole lot, but at least features will work. (Only old school SLI is really missing.) Proton is very stable and recently there have been some nice improvements in areas like load time and menu responsiveness. From my informal testing, it seems like some of that is NTSYNC.

And it's also the worst time in history to be a Windows user, if only because you could still get Windows 98SE when Windows ME had come out...

The foreign reseller can understand how to follow rules. AliExpress collects taxes for different states in our country and also won't ship some things here.

Yes, non citizens and their corporations can own land here

That's because you haven't looked into it even slightly.

What happened in the nineties? It sure wasn't people not living in cities