Word count is really off

I’ve imported a video from YouTube – Lingq tells me that there are 434 words. It has broken the story into 8 pages. I’ve read the first 2 pages and it’s reporting that I’ve read 1.6x and 706 words. When I “print” the article and paste it into Word, Word tells me there are 2900 words in the document.

Same thing happened with one yesterday. The word count for the story showed ~400 words, but after I finished reading it once, it told me I had read 4.7x.

Here’s today’s example: Login - LingQ

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I “printed” the article, copied the text and re-imported it and it says 1775 Total Words | 459 Unique Words (I don’t know how Word vs Lingq are counting the words, so I don’t really care about that difference).

YouTube import with subtitles is definitely messing up – the text is all being imported but it’s being counted incorrectly.

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Thanks, I asked our team to look into it.

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