Jodie Whittaker's 'Doctor Who' interview contains spectacular subtitle error

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Jodie Whittaker's 'Doctor Who' interview contains spectacular subtitle error
Jodie Whittaker is definitely not from "Hoodezfield". Credit: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images

Subtitles, 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 Colbert provides glorious proof of this.

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:

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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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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