Although real-time captioning strives to reach 98 percent accuracy, the audience will see errors.
Pre-recorded programming (television shows, movies, documentaries) all should been seen with no errors at all. The slight delay is based on the captioner writer’s need to hear and code the word, and on computer processing time. A computer translates the phonetic symbols into English captions almost instantaneously. The captions should appear near the bottom or top of the screen-not in the middle, where misplaced captions can cover the newscaster’s face, a basketball hoop or a quarterback passing the football.Ī caption writer (sometimes trained as a court reporter or stenographer) uses a stenotype machine with a phonetic keyboard and special software. Computer software encodes the captioning information and combines it with the audio and video to create a new master tape or digital file of the program. A caption writer translates the dialogue into captions and makes sure the words appear in sync with the audio. Captions can also provide information about who is speaking or about sound effects that might be important to understanding a news story, political event, or the plot.Ĭaptions are created from the program’s script or audio file. (When you have an idea of what someone might be about to say, his or her speech may seem more clear). For people with hearing loss who have residual hearing, captions can make the spoken words easier to understand-because hearing, like vision, is influenced by our expectations. Captions allow viewers to follow the dialogue and the action of a program simultaneously.
#CLOSE CAPTION DEFINITION MOVIE#
Captions are words displayed on a television, computer, mobile device, or movie screen, providing the speech or sound portion of a program or video via text.
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