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Engineering Perspective: Closed Captioning Broadcast Engineering Videos
(Reprinted from the SBE’s newsletter, The Signal ) By Vicki Kipp, CPBE, ATSC3, CBNT Have you ever watched a technical video that is timely, but difficult or impossible to understand? There are plenty of reasons to use closed captioning and not just for the hard-of-hearing community. Perhaps the audio is low or dialog is drowned… Continue reading
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Streaming platforms don’t support Hmong subtitles/ captions
I can’t find any streaming platforms that allow content providers to upload Hmong closed captions with the language ID of Hmong. I’ve sent requests to YouTube and AWS. Some streaming platforms can only upload closed captions in languages that have an ISO 639-1 code. This is a two-letter code. Some platforms require that an audio… 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!
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