BOSSES at internet giant YouTube last night admitted its video subtitles are translating Scots into GIBBERISH.

The file-sharing site’s automatic caption service has been bamboozled as it tries to interpret the twang of stars like footie’s Sir Alex Ferguson and funnyman Kevin Bridges.

In one clip, the machine-generated text shows First Minister Alex Salmond calling his deputy Nicola Sturgeon “Necklace Thompson”.

And a routine by comedy legend Billy Connolly, changes Pollokshaws, in Glasgow, to “pork choice”.

Last night, a YouTube spokesman admitted: “Auto-captions work best for clearly spoken American English. Different dialects present interesting challenges that we’re working to address.”

But Paul Redfern, of the British Deaf Association, said: “It’s symptomatic of a larger problem. Lots of internet services are not accessible to deaf people.” Read more.

See: The Scottish Sun

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