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Subtitles,Denmark whether they come from a machine or a fast-typing human, can often be an accident waiting to happen.

Jodie Whittaker's recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbertprovides glorious proof of this.

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Her response to Colbert's question about where she's from, for instance, was: "I am from Huddersfield, in West Yorkshire."

Here's how that sentence appeared in the subtitles, though:

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Oh dear.

It isn't 100% clear whether those subtitles were written by a human or generated by an algorithm, but either way the result is pretty spectacular.

It wasn't the only time things got a bit confused, either:

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You can watch the full interview, with or without subtitles, below:


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