closed captioning on TV

[pscot]

is as wierdly surreal as my own dwindling hearing.

[Rhiannon12866]

1. I agree with you... There seem to be a lot of mistakes.

I'm not sure how they do it, type as fast as they can while someone's speaking? That could explain it, but there has to be another method that would be more accurate. :(

[Bolo Boffin]

4. There's two different types of captioning these days.

The older version is using a stenography machine like they do in courts. It can get close to 99% of everything said, and after two years of court reporting school, can be very accurate as well.

The other (and cheaper) is using voice recognition software. That's what I do for my company. It's a rather intense juggling act - listening to what's being said, repeating it, adding in punctuation where necessary, and reading what's been published to correct the worst errors. Remember the line about Ginger Rogers doing everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels? Amateur. ;)

As a partially deaf person myself, I assure you that we take our job very serious and we do quality control work all of the time. And still there are mistake in live programming. But keep pointing them out and we'll keep working to make them better.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. It's made TV enjoyable again for us

I'm increasingly reluctant to go to movies because of the lack of captioning. I'd rather wait for a movie to show up on cable so that I can watch it with captioning.

[lpbk2713]

3. I wouldn't subscribe to Netflix

if not for closed captioning. I can even replay if I missed something in the audio or video.