By Jake Drown
Tag: television
Television is a medium for transmitting moving images and sound, used for entertainment, news, education, and advertising. Television content includes everything from scripted shows, news broadcasts, movies, and documentaries to reality TV and live events. With the rise of digital platforms and streaming services, television content is now accessible across a variety of devices, including smart TVs, computers, tablets, and smartphones.
Captioning for television is critical for accessibility, especially for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. By adding captions to television programs, sound effects, and dialogue are transcribed and displayed as text, ensuring that all viewers can fully understand and enjoy the content. Closed captions (which can be turned on or off) are commonly used in TV broadcasts to meet accessibility standards and comply with legal requirements. Professional captioning services ensure that captions are accurate, well-timed, and formatted correctly, enhancing both the viewer experience and accessibility. Moreover, captions also benefit non-native speakers and those in noisy environments, ensuring television content is accessible to a wider audience.
By Jake Drown
The Debate of Human-Generated vs AI-Generated Captions: Which is Right for You?
By Jake Drown
5 Issues with Closed Captioning Your Own Videos
Close captioning is a great way to make videos more accessible to viewers who are hard of hearing or deaf. Unfortunately, it can often be tricky to implement with your own videos, and there are plenty of issues that you may encounter. This article will discuss 5 of the most common issues associated with close captioning your own videos, so you can be better prepared for the task.
Issue 1: Finding the Time to Do It
Close captioning is a very time-consuming process and it is often difficult to find time to do it in your own schedule. Not only does it take time to actually add the captions, but you also have to watch the video while creating the captions, which can take significantly longer than the actual captioning. It’s a good idea to break the video down into smaller parts, so you can work on it in more manageable chunks, but it still takes a lot of time to get the job done.
By Ben Kalb
Beyond Spoken Words: The Depth of Accuracy
Quality captions don’t just get the words right, they express every sound and nuance that’s happening on screen. This belief is more than a commitment to showing integrity in our work—it’s a matter of upholding basic, necessary accuracy.
By Ben Kalb
The FCC Cracks Down on Quality Standards
Discount companies are using shortcuts and claim high accuracy at low costs, which sounds pretty good, right? But the FCC isn’t looking for “pretty good”—it’s mandating perfection.
By Ryan Hawthorne
Fishers of Men: The Importance of Quality Closed Captioning in Ministry Broadcasts
A pure gold brick wrapped in an ugly package.
If you’re a ministry organization, and you’re settling for poor quality closed captioning, that’s exactly what you’re offering to deaf and hard of hearing parishioners.
By Ryan Hawthorne
FCC Captioning Quality Improvements
The FCC unanimously voted to adopt new standards for closed captioning on television programming. The new rules are meant to ensure the best efforts of video programming distributors to improve closed captioning quality. The new standards focus on quality improvement to post-produced closed captioning in four specific areas: accuracy, synchronicity, completeness and placement.
By Ryan Hawthorne
The Hidden Reading Tutor
Students around the country are now back in school following the holidays. This year, though, the break meant a unique assignment for some elementary students in Memphis, Tennessee.
By Ben Kalb
Tapeless Broadcast
CaptionLabs proudly introduces the addition of StationDrop to its already popular closed captioning services. StationDrop allows producers to deliver full-length broadcast programming to stations and networks digitally with no hassle, no tapes and no shipping.
By Ben Kalb
New Closed Captioned Complaint Rules
Closed captions link whole segments of the population to the world, and that link is about to get stronger.
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