Responding to the gaffe a BBC spokesman said: "Our live subtitling service produces accuracy levels in excess of 98% but, as with all broadcasters, there are instances - particularly during live broadcasts - when mistakes happen.
"On this occasion the voice recognition subtitling software made an error which was spotted and corrected immediately."
Owens had an eventful match, disallowing two England tries during the pulsating encounter in the Scottish capital.
Following some criticism from England fans on social media Owens said: 'One thing that really gets me going is when people accuse a referee of being a cheat.
"I will never block anyone on Twitter for thinking I didn't referee well. What I do block people for is if they call a referee a cheat or accuse them of bias. If somebody says that, they're gone and blocked."
Owens, the first openly gay man to officiate at the highest level of the game, revealed his sexuality in 2007.
He said the pressure of officiating the 2015 Rugby World Cup final was nothing compared to accepting his homosexuality.
Owens, who was born and raised in the close-knit village of Mynyddcerrig in Carmarthenshire, said realising he was gay felt 'totally alien' to him.
He revealed how he "would have done anything to be 'normal' in people's eyes" and asked a doctor if he could be chemically castrated after finding out he was gay.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last year, he said: "Refereeing that World Cup final between Australia and New Zealand in front of 85,000 people and the millions of people watching at home, scrutinising every single decision you make under a huge amount of pressure, was nothing compared to the challenge of accepting who I was."
To get the day's top sports stories in your inbox, sign up to our newsletter here
