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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I found an area of concern with ProQuest AVON. I wasn’t happy with the quality of the transcripts for the first two films I looked at. The transcripts were obviously machine generated with serious errors. I wrote to Dana Oullette with
examples of the errors and she said that when transcription errors are brought to their attention, the film is then reviewed by a human to correct errors. Here are the films I reviewed and the errors I found:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The first video I viewed was <i>World War II: 1942 and Hitler’s Soft Underbelly—Part 2</i>. The narrator had a British accent. Here is an example of what I found:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Minute 0:26/46:14 – <b>Spoken:</b> “Why did allies fight so much of the war around the Mediterranean, thousands of miles from the real
<u>target</u>, Nazi Germany?” <b>Transcript:</b> “Why did allies fight so much of the war around the Mediterranean, thousands of miles from the real
<u>tocket</u>, Germany?” (what is a tocket?)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><![if !supportLists]><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]>Minute 1:25/46:14 – <b>Spoken:</b> “In reality, the soft underbelly would see some of the worst
<u>carnage</u> in Western Europe. Fighting <u>akin</u> to the great war of <u>1914-18</u>, Britain and America became bogged down while the Soviet
<u>war machine ground on remorselessly</u> to the real target Berlin.” <b>Transcript:</b> “In reality, the soft underbelly would see some of the worst
<u>collage</u> in Western Europe. Fighting <u>again</u> to the great war of <u>1948</u>, Britain and America became bogged down while the Soviet
<u>war ground on all the most </u>to the real target Berlin.” <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then I listened to the film <i>Multicultural History of the United States, 1700—1849</i>. The narrator spoke with an American accent and I thought spoke very clearly. I noted the following inaccuracies in the transcript:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Minute 2:52/21:50 – <b>Spoken:</b> “This peace did not discourage settlers from being
<u>hostile</u> towards them.” <b>Transcript:</b> “This peace did not discourage settlers from being
<u>hustled</u> towards them.”<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Minute: 3:43:21:50 – <b>Spoken:</b> The game of North America was a
<u>prized</u> commodity across the world.” <b>Transcript:</b> “The game of North America was a
<u>priced</u> commodity across the world.”<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Minute 3:48/21:50 – <b>Spoken:</b> “The hat makers across Europe
<u>prized</u> the furs brought across the sea and a huge industry arose.” <b>Transcript:</b> “The European hat makers
<u>priced</u> the furs brought across the seas and a huge industry arose.”<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The third film I saw was called <i>Building Climate Resilient and Food Secure Communities in Fiji</i>. In the first few minutes I watched, I didn’t see anything that was misleading or incorrect. After that, I watched
<i>Merchant of Venice</i> with no discernable errors in transcription.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope others are looking at the videos and noticing any problems with transcripts. In some cases these errors are serious.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mindy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mindy Coslor, PhD<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director of Library Services<o:p></o:p></p>
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