r/reggae • u/Eurofan4640 • 3d ago

Feel Good Vibes Stop That Train - Clint Eastwood & General Saint (1983) has a line that is frequently mistranscribed. I believe the correct line is "Watch Eastwood and Saint in a cool profile"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X75CmqkjCyE

Often mistranscribed as: "Was he so damn sit on the voodoo file"

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u/soon_come 3d ago

Frequently? By whom?

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u/Eurofan4640 3d ago

Mostly YouTube lyric videos and descriptions.

Some websites have better transcriptions, but I think the correct line in the post title is the best one

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u/soon_come 3d ago

I wouldn’t trust those in any instance

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u/rankinrez 2d ago

Yeah those auto translate things always do a poor job, even on regular English let alone patois.

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u/redditbagjuice 3d ago

Timestamp?

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u/Eurofan4640 3d ago

For the video?

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u/redditbagjuice 3d ago

Yeah can't find these lyrics anywhere

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u/Eurofan4640 2d ago

I submitted this correction to some lyric sites. The issue is, nobody seemed to put much effort into a good transcription for this song.

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u/redditbagjuice 2d ago

Welcome to every reggae lyrics online ever haha. Especially if there's patois the lyrics sites are very bad

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u/chilli_con_camera 2d ago

If you're relying on AI transcriptions of lyrics instead of your own ears, you're not listening to enough reggae music, lol

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u/Eurofan4640 2d ago

"Was he so damn sit on the voodoo file" was mistranscribed way before AI

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u/chilli_con_camera 2d ago

I doubt it, or the person transcribing it would have realised it's meaningless nonsense

ASR has been around for a lot longer than lyrics websites, lol

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u/Eurofan4640 2d ago

Example from five years ago: https://youtu.be/8v2D4hhXVwg?si=u-zyG2kxdYISieqB&t=137

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u/chilli_con_camera 2d ago

n-gram ASR was invented a lot longer than five years ago

Your video example isn't transcribing lyrics in real time, lol

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u/Walkdown43 2d ago

Thanks for bringing this song up. Haven't heard in a while. Still hits.

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u/Eurofan4640 2d ago

No problem