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Offline franksolich

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hard-of-hearing primitives discuss closed-captioning
« on: April 22, 2012, 05:47:39 AM »
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Oh my.

The deaf and hard-of-hearing forum on Skins's island is clogged with cobwebs.

Of course, if no one knows this, there's only ever been one bona fide born-deaf primitive, and the primitives got rid of him in a hurry.  That was a few years ago.

Otherwise, the forum, both on the old DU and the new DU, the rare times someone goes into it, consists of primitives born hearing but then later lost some of it.  Not the same thing; different animals altogether.

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I think CNN must offshore its closed captioning

It's obviously the work of non-English speaking dislexics. What hearing I have left is somewhat surreal, but nothing like what CC produces.

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1. CC on news broadcasts is often weird

I suspect that it's done in real time by voice-recognition software. CC for scripted shows can be done ahead of time.

franksolich avoids the problem--it's blatantly obvious closed-captioning does not accurately reflect what's being said--by not bothering with television at all.
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Re: hard-of-hearing primitives discuss closed-captioning
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2012, 10:11:58 AM »
When the kids were just babies, the missus and I would often turn the volume down on the television to almost off, and enable captioning. - So we could hear them if they were crying, and to try to keep them sleeping. We also used captioning as a reading aid for the kids, squeezing at least a little bit of education into a kids program that wasn't designed with learning in mind.

It dove me batty. It was almost never accurate, and we gave up on it.
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Re: hard-of-hearing primitives discuss closed-captioning
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2012, 10:19:13 AM »
I've been told most captioning is done during the broadcast.  Especially of live news, shows like that.  Seems that trying to type as fast as speech would be difficult and result in many errors.  My friends who are deaf tell me they don't watch TV and only use captioning for movies that they rent.  I can see why.
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Re: hard-of-hearing primitives discuss closed-captioning
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2012, 10:23:56 AM »
God would I ever LOVE to have access to the closed caption machine for MSNBC. Oh mama...I could make DU assplode.
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Re: hard-of-hearing primitives discuss closed-captioning
« Reply #4 on: April 22, 2012, 10:40:04 AM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on April 22, 2012, 10:23:56 AM
God would I ever LOVE to have access to the closed caption machine for MSNBC. Oh mama...I could make DU assplode.

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