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Closed Caption Writing by Vicki Kipp

Captions in Our Culture

  • Evaluating or Troubleshooting Caption UX Across Online Platforms– IP Streaming Edition

    Download Online Closed Captioning User Experience _UX_ Evaluation_Troubleshooting Log PDF\ Online CC UX Hello, CaptionBreakers, Occasionally, a web streaming service will update its server in a way that “breaks” the closed caption display. Streaming service providers can be reluctant to admit that: A. There is a problem with online closed captioning. and that B. That…

  • No robots!

    A non-profit 501c3 organization called The Closed Captioning Project is dedicated to providing high-quality closed captions and to educating people about the differences between AI auto-generated speech-to-text captions and captions written by a trained human. The Closed Captioning Project does a good job contrasting robocaptioning and human captioning.

  • Force caption language on YouTube (2019)

    If your viewer’s language preference is set to English, and you have uploaded your captions in English, then they will see your captions in English; If you want to force your captions play in a certain language, you can embed the video on your website and add the code &hl=es&cc_lang_pref=es&cc_load_policy=1 after your video ID in the iframe embed.…

  • Uploading Hmong (Daw) Language Captions to YouTube

  • Translate your closed captions to 100+ languages with Google Translate

    https://translate.google.com/intl/en/about/languages/ As of today, 100+ languages… Languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada,…

  • Uploading Hmong (Daw) captions to YouTube

    Hey, ho, this is CaptionBreaker here. Made both English and Hmong caption files to upload to YouTube. YouTube doesn’t have a caption language selection specifically for Hmong yet. When I entered Hmong for the language, YouTube saved those captions as “Cantonese (Hong Kong)” At the same time, if I upload English captions, and ask YouTube…

  • Belly Captions

    For this program, the captions were in the standard position of the bottom of the screen. Unfortunately, those closed captions block a lower-third. ________________________________________ Prior to early 2015, broadcasters were not required to reposition closed captions to avoid blocking on-screen text (nor to avoid covering people’s faces so viewers can lip-read.) In February 2015, the…

  • Well said, Streaming Media magazine! Liam Moran’s “Writing Text for Video: Did Someone Say ‘Autumn Aided Cap Shins’?”

    The following article by Liam Moran in the June 2018 volume of Streaming Media magazine does a fantastic job explaining the shortcomings of automated Artifical Intelligence (AI) captions. Worth reading! http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Writing-Text-for-Video-Did-Someone-Say-Autumn-Aided-Cap-Shins-125614.aspx Writing Text for Video: Did Someone Say ‘Autumn Aided Cap Shins’? Maybe, but they probably said “automated captions.” Creating reliable captions is a challenge, but…

  • Caption fail at Princess Eugenie’s wedding

    Twitter caption read: “What a beautiful breasts. Absolutely fitting her.” A spokesperson for the BBC 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.” And…

  • Which job title for business card?

    There are a number of different names for real-time and non-real-time captioners. Non real-time captioners go by: offline captioner post-production captioner non-real-time captioner caption writer caption composer broadcast captioner Real-time captioners go by: live captioner stenographer real-time captioner CART provider Court reporter caption writer caption composer broadcast captioner I never know what to list on…

About Me

Hello there! My name is Vicki Kipp, and I am a closed caption maker. Making closed captions is time consuming and complicated, so this blog is a collection of all of the knowledge and experiences I have gained. I hope my collection of tips and tricks might help you with your closed caption work the way it has helped me!

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