Becoming (indistinct)

[güey]

At 12:17, the (manual) subtitles say: Becoming (indistinct).
Could you tell me please if it's just me or is he saying there to become an authoritarian leader.

 

[probus]

Yes, he says "authoritarian leader". Whoever edited the video evidently thought it would be cool to merge the final r of leader into the sound of the helicopter. Of course subtitling software doesn't understand the concept of cool.
Why do you think these subtitles are "manual"?

 

[güey]

Why do you think these subtitles are "manual"?

Automatic subtitles are called "auto-generated", they appear word by word as the speech is progressing, don't have punctuation and capitalization. In this video both are available, one can switch to one or the other.

 

[probus]

Automatic subtitles are unreliable. Things they don't understand include both jokes and irony. Here's an example from my owm experience. I was watching an American film with Spanish subtitles. A character exclaimed "Yeah, right" and the subtitle read "Claro que si". But of course it ehould have read "Claro que no" because "Yeah right!" is always ironic.

 

[güey]

Automatic subtitles are unreliable. Things they don't understand include both jokes and irony. Here's an example from my owm experience. I was watching an American film with Spanish subtitles. A character exclaimed "Yeah, right" and the subtitle read "Claro que si". But of course it ehould have read "Claro que no" because "Yeah right!" is always ironic.

That's a little different, it's auto-translation. Google (Youtube) may make a perfect transcription, but then you choose the option to auto-translate it into a foreign language, and much nuance may be lost indeed.