It's especially aggregious when it's a clip from an adult series. Have fun having every other word be bleeped out because one character is slightly rougher with their language.
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I'd like a setting named something like "I'm over 12, so naughty words are cool" or even "my video has beeps so mark it as 'under 12' so only kids see it" because I'd rather the kid stuff was just filtered out.
I was thinking about this the other day. Why does the beep have to be louder than the speech, why does everyone use the same sound, why is there a beep at all? It seems very intrusive and distracting, I think white noise or even just silence would be better for the purpose of censoring.
I guess because it was originally used in contexts where cutting out the normal line and cutting in something else was way more complicated (analog), especially live, so just blocking that out with a physical button press producing a deafening and silencing beep is easier.
And humans are fucking annoying assholes, valuing tradition over logic.
They could also just use a delay. I know sometimes they queue up like 15-20s locally, and the producer can hit a button to just dump the last second or two of feed (eating into your delay buffer) as a method of censoring. Much easier on sensitive ears.
Of course, nowadays there'd be many more options. Or they could just refrain from fucking censoring. 8 year olds know and say the beeped words without hesitation. What they wanted to originally achieve - not raising swearing generations - has failed extensively. Instead, produce/play content that mirrors realistic scenarios for swears etc. Beeping someone telling their teacher/boss/whatever to go fuck themselves on TV won't make kids not reproduce this, the opposite is the case: It's now something forbidden. Seemingly censored without the person's consent even. Which naturally makes it much more attractive to use inappropriate.
One Channel, i dont watch because of that, uses/used the windows error sound...
The silence is even louder to me as it disrupts the speech.
Ummm
They're called "bleeps"
You said it. Stop TV, YouTube, and social media. Download everything.
I know it's so annoying. Like the thing on lemmy that blocks out credit card numbers. I needed to send it to my friend the other week and lemmy was the easiest way, but it blanks it out, here's my number, see? ####-####-####-####
Really let me try 2345678910
Does this really work?
6969-6969-6969
Edit: so cool! I like that you can still see the numbers but it blocks everyone else from seeing it. Had to check with my other account. But it works!
Did it work? Looks unobfuscated on my end, but I assume that's a special feature. It'd be silly if it obfuscates my own comments right?
It also works for passwords but displays astricks. For example mine is ******* go ahead, test it out with your password
Let’s see, mine is hunter2. Yeah I guess it works: I can still see it but im sure it’s censored for everyone else, right? Right?
Get tinnitus in the same frequency of the tone and it will just kinda blend in.
I'm no programmer (not a good one, anyway) but it seems to me that the beeps are all in the same tone, or very similar. I wonder if one could write a program that listens for that tone and simply mutes it. Could be setup as a Firefox extension or something.
I'm not an expert on making browser extensions, but I doubt they'd get direct access to the audio buffer just before it gets sent to the the OS. It should be possible to do this on the OS-level though, like with (on Linux) a PulseAudio module or something.
I would use that extension. Be the change <3
This already exists if you know what to look for, and are willing to dive into a technical solution.
The bleep tone is usually a 1kHz sine wave (according to wikipedia). We can simply create a band pass filter that removes all 1kHz tones from the audio output of windows.
This does have side effects. Most notably that human speach, especially some female voices, are around this 1kHz frequency too. Since the tone was designed to mask voices, this makes sense. So I'm not sure if the side effects are worth it, but you can certainly try.
Creating such a filter on live audio can be done with something like this: https://github.com/AndreasArvidsson/WinDSP
Never tried it before myself, but the description matches exactly what you would need. You will want a PEQ filter with a high Q and significant negative gain around the 1000Hz frequency. I'm not an audio engineer, so I have no idea what values would work well. But if you want to play with those: a higher Q creates a narrower band around the 1000 to filter out.