Captions in Our Culture
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Why AI Captions Need Better Formatting
A popular AI broadcast caption service– let’s call it Flexi– ignores a key rule of captioning. It’s captioning canon to start a new caption line after a sentence ends. AI captions don’t bother with a new caption line. After a sentence ends, AI captions start a new sentence on the same line. A human stenographer… Continue reading
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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Timeline
1991 Regulations Issued: Title I – IV1992 Effective: ADA Title I (25> employees), Title II, Title III1993 Effective: Title IV of the AD1994 Effective: Title I of the ADA (15> employees) US Supreme Court2006 Updated ADA Transportation Regulations2008 ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) Signed2009 Effective: ADAAA2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design2010 Updated ADA Guidelines and Rules:… Continue reading
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Captioning First Nations Languages in Wisconsin
Wisconsin’s 12 tribal nations include three Indigenous language families: Ojibwe (Algonquian) is spoken by the 6 Bands of Lake Superior Chippewa, making it the most common First Nations language in Wisconsin. Ojibwe (Ojibwa) has an ISO 639-1 language tag (oj) and an ISO 639-2 language tag (oj). Tribe Language Language Family Bad River Band of… Continue reading
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NCRA Realtime Broadcast Captioning Style and Format Guides for U.S.
Live captions start a new line after sentence-ending punctuation. Continue reading
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Timing Considerations for Hmong Closed Captions
DCMP conventions for Broadcast closed captions Character SetTraditional video closed captions only support the basic and extended ASCII character sets. CTA 608 closed captions can only support standard ASCII letters, numbers, and punctuation (, . ? / : ; ” ‘ [ ] ( ) ! @ # $ % & ( ) <… Continue reading
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When your live captioner leaves you hanging…
The live captioner canceled on us at the last minute because their “caption hardware stopped working.” Our captioning agency was not able to find another captioner until our live-from-tape program aired live tonight. The caption agency was apologetic. Live captioners are in high demand and low supply. Any captioner that might have been available… Continue reading
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Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl and PBS develop Audio Description (AD) service
1964 Chet Avery, a U.S. Department of Education administrator who is blind suggests describing educational media. 1981 Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl invented first ongoing audio description service for adults attending live theater. Dr. Margaret Pfanstiehl trained volunteers to audio describe the PBS series “American Playhouse.” 1984 NTSC adopts MTS / SAP for new TVs. 1985-86 WGBH… Continue reading
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So, you want to be a Post-Production Offline Captioner
Obviously, you do. Don’t we all? Here are some valuable skills to have for post-production closed captioning: _ Ability to memorize and follow the DCMP’s Captioning Key style guide. _ Ability to follow AP Style. _ Awesome at proper punctuation. _ Ability to always spell words correctly– especially proper nouns– by spellchecking, researching, and verifying.… Continue reading
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!
Recent Posts
- FCC Website Requirement: FCC Applications Link/Page
- Engineering Perspective: Closed Captioning Broadcast Engineering Videos
- Comments on FCC Docket No. 16-142_ Authorizing Permissive Use of the Next Generation Broadcast Television Standard
- How to Replace a Transmission Line Watchband Spring
- Netflix Subtitle Style Guide 2024