Things like this just make me so happy.
The Owen Wilson Wow API
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#22There should be an HTTP status WOW to return in response to stupefying requests.
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#23Is this 'just' an insane amount of manual effort? I'm not particularly up on ML, but suspected it at first partly just because 'insane amount of manual effort', but also because many seem clipped too short. But the repo makes it seem very much just like a manual clip collection; acknowledges a 'listicle' of Wilson 'wow' films with 'wow' counts (slight reduction in novel manual effort.. but no timestamps).
A true fan would have all of his films downloaded including the closed captions.
As someone who needs closed captioning at this point in their life, but can still understand most things, let me tell you how bad closed captioning is. I would not rely on cc to be more than 65% accurate.
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#24wow
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#25I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power you're using here. It didn't require any discipline to attain it. You know, you read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourself, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could before you even knew what you had.
Must wow faster.
Wow...finds a way.
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#26"The Owen Wilson Wow API is not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with Owen Wilson, or any of his subsidiaries or affiliates."
That's just sad. Interjecting myself into a movie star's position, but if someone made a site like this based on my work in a fun light hearted manner like this, I'd endorse it. It's only an ignored request or a polite no response away, or a full endorsement. You just gotta ask (assuming there was no ask and this is just a boiler plate CYA bit of text).
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
A true fan would have all of his films downloaded including the closed captions.
As someone who needs closed captioning at this point in their life, but can still understand most things, let me tell you how bad closed captioning is. I would not rely on cc to be more than 65% accurate.
I am sorry and surprised to hear that. I would think especially now it wouldn't be too hard to auto generate a good portion.
My experience is very limited but sometimes people ask me to turn on subtitles and they are usually perfectly fine, even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate?
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#28Got one where the video didn't work properly:
[{"movie":"The Big Year","year":2011,"release_date":"2011-10-14","director":"David Frankel","character":"Kenny Bostick","movie_duration":"01:43:09","timestamp":"01:08:23","full_line":"Wow, and here I thought I was the bomb at 728.","current_wow_in_movie":3,"total_wows_in_movie":3,"poster":"https://images.ctfassets.net/bs8ntwkklfua/pCjGOhbTCQVjLRN9zT...}]
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone who needs closed captioning at this point in their life, but can still understand most things, let me tell you how bad closed captioning is. I would not rely on cc to be more than 65% accurate.
I am sorry and surprised to hear that. I would think especially now it wouldn't be too hard to auto generate a good portion. My experience is very limited but sometimes people ask me to turn on subtitles and they are usually perfectly fine, even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate?
> even the ones that random people on the internet contribute for free - can you elaborate
these typically are the best available, but not always quite right.
the cc provided by wgbh are usually pretty good as well, but they are mission focused on delivering good closed captioning - it's just that not everyone wants to use them (or they can't schedule? not sure)
unfortunately, once you leave those two, it's a craps shoot as to whether they make sense or truly convey the message that the audio is conveying. some of them seem to go by what I'm guessing is the original script, which can be fairly close in meaning to what they're saying, others are just a mish-mash of words that are misspelled and don't necessarily convey the meaning that the audio is trying to.
the worst is live sports, which really don't have to be: I've been to conferences that were extremely inclusive and have had real-time (remote) closed captioning - seeing how good those can be make me shake my head in wonder when I see the typical sports closed captioning. eek.
I'm stuck in the middle where I can still hear and interpret most words, so have a lot of incongruence when I am relying on both the cc and the audio when they don't match.
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#30There ought to be a Christopher Walken version; it would cover about an octave and a half.
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