axbom’s avataraxbom’s Twitter Archive—№ 31,481

  1. Accidental poetry. I recorded an intro for an explainer video. And then this surreal text, almost a story, popped up on screen. I realized I had transcription for English turned on as I was speaking Swedish. Trust me, this is veeery far from what I was saying...
    oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    1. …in reply to @axbom
      This is the Swedish text I was reading as the previous text was generated by the transcription algorithm.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
      1. …in reply to @axbom
        It’s essentially just a warning that the scenario I show in the film is not finalized and there may be several changes over the course of the project.
        1. …in reply to @axbom
          Because I became obsessed I just had to do a side by side of the Swedish versus the machine interpretation. Machine-readable text here: telegra.ph/Swedish-voice-reading-intepreted-to-English-text-05-20
          oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
    2. …in reply to @axbom
      stephenanderson I think you'll get a kick out of this.
    3. …in reply to @axbom
      If I ever get writer's block as I'm composing fiction I won't hesitate to start using this "trick"...