tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37877540.post5391947552480121324..comments2024-01-18T05:45:59.595-05:00Comments on The Daily Bellwether: Closed Captions On Ohio TV: 24/7 Gibberish Dished To The DisabledAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12712163977315292252noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37877540.post-86526693395711201052007-07-07T15:21:00.000-04:002007-07-07T15:21:00.000-04:00Joe -- You obviously know a great deal about the ...Joe --<BR/><BR/> You obviously know a great deal about the technical end of captioning. I only know the consumer side, and I was pretty much unable to follow the news shows I was watching. I have older relatives who are hard of hearing, both WWII vets, one from ships and the other from bombers. They have had difficulty with TV.<BR/><BR/>That is not why I wrote the post, though. I just couldn't follow what I was watching, and looked at more and more over a few days, and most of what I saw was pretty miserably done. However, I did not do a scientific experiment or keep a journal.<BR/><BR/>I guess you are saying that what we have now is about as good as it can be. That's unfortunate, particularly as the population ages. Question: Do the Florida broadcasters do better? The elderly population is high in that state.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712163977315292252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37877540.post-88340103393863083132007-07-07T14:22:00.000-04:002007-07-07T14:22:00.000-04:00Since the cases you cite are obviously mistranslat...Since the cases you cite are obviously mistranslated keystrokes from real-time captioning, maybe you could do a reasonably accurate sample and count how many completely accurate lines (or at least lines where every word is a word even if it's the wrong word) there are, and how many lines contain these random phonetics. <BR/><BR/>Everyone who can just barely pass a court-reporting program can get a job in the U.S., and some of them end up doing captioning. You don't always get the 200-wpm experts captioning your show (and many shows shouldn't be captioned using real-time). So not only is the technology intrinsically limited (you simply cannot get above 98% accuracy over long periods), you might be stuck with an only-barely-competent stenocaptionist in the first place. The only change from five, ten, or 20 years ago is the increased number of ill-qualified writers, since we've had to hire everyone we can hire just to get the shows captioned.<BR/><BR/>If you want to complain about something, complain about overuse of scrollup captioning, or errors in prerecorded captioned shows.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13570342265243722865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37877540.post-65405647042821586852007-07-06T17:41:00.000-04:002007-07-06T17:41:00.000-04:00Jill -Man, if I had known you had written about th...Jill -<BR/><BR/>Man, if I had known you had written about this I would have linked.<BR/><BR/>And if I read your post, it must have slipped my mind, like a certain marriage (if you get my drift).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12712163977315292252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37877540.post-41379832600078591322007-07-05T23:21:00.000-04:002007-07-05T23:21:00.000-04:00Bill - I'm not deaf but I so know this problem. T...Bill - I'm not deaf but I so know this problem. Thanks for mentioning it.Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02175591212176951287noreply@blogger.com