TV Captions Closed Captioning For Those With Hearing Loss
TV Captions, Closed Captioning For Those With Hearing Loss
— Receive access to exclusive information, benefits and discounts Frankly, it can be a challenge to figure out what these garbled captions mean. In my book Shouting Won't Help, I listed some examples of captions I have seen: "The boy ate the bridge." "Can you hear the garbage?" "He liked to eat morphine." "Blahmahsan boar genie" — this last meant to be Lamborghini. More often, you can't even see the captions because they overlap with the network's own on-screen information, like a speaker's name and title. Sometimes, if the speaker has a heavy accent, the network provides its own captions, which overlap with the TV set's captions. And networks like MSNBC and CNN put so much other written information on the screen that reading captions becomes impossible. Trying to lip-read candidate speeches isn't much better — although it can be highly entertaining. Bad Lip Reading is a YouTube channel that takes clips from movies, and news stories and dubs them with captions that match the speakers' lips. This is possible because only 30 to 40 percent of the sounds of speech are visible on the lips. The letters B, P and M, when spoken, look exactly the same. This is why you generally need at least a bit of hearing — as well as attention to the speaker's facial expressions and to the context of the sentence — to read lips at all accurately. It's also why they are so easy to spoof by dubbing in what seems like the words the candidates are saying by the movement of their lips. AARP Membership:
Finding the Humor in TV Captioning
TV captions can be helpful pointless or in some cases pretty funny
Getty Images Closed captioning for the hard of hearing can sometimes be bewildering. We can all use a good laugh during this lengthy and grim election season, but for , those laughs sometimes come when we don't want them — namely, from the bewildering closed captioning that appears on the television screen during the news or, more recently, the presidential debates.Hearing Loss
— Receive access to exclusive information, benefits and discounts Frankly, it can be a challenge to figure out what these garbled captions mean. In my book Shouting Won't Help, I listed some examples of captions I have seen: "The boy ate the bridge." "Can you hear the garbage?" "He liked to eat morphine." "Blahmahsan boar genie" — this last meant to be Lamborghini. More often, you can't even see the captions because they overlap with the network's own on-screen information, like a speaker's name and title. Sometimes, if the speaker has a heavy accent, the network provides its own captions, which overlap with the TV set's captions. And networks like MSNBC and CNN put so much other written information on the screen that reading captions becomes impossible. Trying to lip-read candidate speeches isn't much better — although it can be highly entertaining. Bad Lip Reading is a YouTube channel that takes clips from movies, and news stories and dubs them with captions that match the speakers' lips. This is possible because only 30 to 40 percent of the sounds of speech are visible on the lips. The letters B, P and M, when spoken, look exactly the same. This is why you generally need at least a bit of hearing — as well as attention to the speaker's facial expressions and to the context of the sentence — to read lips at all accurately. It's also why they are so easy to spoof by dubbing in what seems like the words the candidates are saying by the movement of their lips. AARP Membership: