Posts Tagged ‘Rhett and Link’

Rhett & Link Use YouTube Auto-Captioning To Write Awesome Gibberish Script [Video]

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YouTube comic geniuses Rhett and Link have released a funny new video that illustrates the not-so-effective YouTube Auto-Captioning or “audio transcription” tool. Basically, they video taped a sketch, uploaded it to YouTube and auto-captioned it. They then turned those captions into a new script, which they recorded and repeated the process and acted all three scripts out, “back to back to back.” The result is absolutely hilarious.

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New Media Index: No Dominant Stories on Blogs, Twitter

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A former death row inmate who won a $14 million from the Supreme Court was the subject of the most shared news links by bloggers, while the new Google +1 service topped the Twitter list, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was a Japanese Coast Guard vessel heading straight into a wave to avoid damage, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index for the week of March 28-April 1.

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