As a concept,
captioning is really simple--it's just blocks of text with specific time-code markers as to where they start and end.
The
Captioning Group uses the highest-quality software to provide the end product necessary for a wide variety of outputs, from web-based to broadcast.
Additionally,
captioning allows for silent viewing at times when sound in public areas is disruptive.
Kulczar cites the example of the 2017 Tennis US Open, where IBM Watson Media powered closed
captioning of the event, and was able to navigate nuanced tennis lingo.
Communication Access Realtime Translation, commonly known as CART (see "Quality control in captions," page 45), is the latest in live
captioning. It provides exact, word-for-word transcription on computer screens or mobile devices, such as iPads or smartphones, for students and audience members.
Vitac is the largest provider of closed
captioning in the country, responsible for
captioning approximately 300,000 live-program hours per year (over 600 hours per day), and creating verbatim, precisely-timed captions for 57,000 pre-recorded programs per year.
Further, should the Commission, as one commenter suggested, place the onus on video programmers to certify quality
captioning and make the certification widely available to the public?
For broadcast programming, videos and films, the usual
captioning approach is that of closed
captioning.
To help them overcome this, she has researched and is employing a rather novel approach: video
captioning. Not to be confused with subtitles--which translate what on-screen speakers are saying into a different language--captions are superimposed on video images as printed supplements to on-screen dialogue.