gm@trsvax (09/10/85)
I tuned in tonight to watch the Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Redskins on ABC (live). Before the show started the closed captioning logo came on, with an announcement that this was being closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Now since this was a live broadcast, I was wondering how they insert the text real-time like that. Or do they? I wonder if it is only for the taped interview-type segments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number 4: The Larch. Number 40: The Naughty Bits. Number 4000: The Setuid Bit. ------------ George Moore (gm@trsvax.UUCP)
lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (09/12/85)
Yes, it is done in real time. They have a stenographer typing into a special computer which performs the translation to English captions. A rather nifty system. --Lauren-- P.S. The same system is used for news programs, speeches, etc. --LW--
brown@nicmad.UUCP (09/13/85)
In article <58300036@trsvax> gm@trsvax writes: > > >I tuned in tonight to watch the Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Redskins on ABC >(live). Before the show started the closed captioning logo came on, with an >announcement that this was being closed captioned for the hearing impaired. >Now since this was a live broadcast, I was wondering how they insert the >text real-time like that. Or do they? I wonder if it is only for the taped >interview-type segments. ABC explained how they do live captioning for the ABC World News Tonight. The tv program is sent to the National Captioning Institute, which then creates the text using a modified court recorder. This allows them to be able to do it in realtime. Hope this helps explain it. -- Mr. Video {seismo!uwvax!|!decvax|!ihnp4}!nicmad!brown
paulh@copper.UUCP (Paul Hubbard) (09/17/85)
>I tuned in tonight to watch the Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Redskins on ABC >(live). Before the show started the closed captioning logo came on, with an >announcement that this was being closed captioned for the hearing impaired. >Now since this was a live broadcast, I was wondering how they insert the >text real-time like that. Or do they? I wonder if it is only for the taped >interview-type segments. Closed captioning is frequently provided for live programs. For example, many of the evening news programs are closed captioned and these shows are definitely live. To provide captions for live programs, the networks have an operator(s?) at a closed captioning device who listens to the show and types in the dialog. It's amusing to watch a live, closed- captioned show because the captions are usually about 5 to 25 seconds behind the actual dialog. It can make for some pretty funny picture/ subtitle combinations. The captions are also interesting because they paraphrase the dialog, and sometimes the paraphrasing can change the meaning the dialog. pH tektronix!tekmdp!bronze!paulh
fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen) (09/18/85)
sometime in the last year or so, "Deaf American" had an article on
real-time speech-to-text transcription, using large TV monitors for
display. since people tend to talk faster than a typist can type
word-for-word, and since typed summaries are less than satisfactory,
the setup used a court reporting machine attached to a microcomputer.
evidently court reporting machines use something like a phonic system
(anyone really know?).
the end result was that speech *was* transcribed to text in
real-time, but with the draw back of not being able to dis-ambiguate
(sp?) homophones.
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