Any kind of speech, lecture, seminar, or presentation can benefit from remote captioning. When hosting an event, it’s important to reach as many people as possible, and for the information you’re sharing to last long in the memory. In these times of COVID-19, remote captioning is even more imperative with online meetings and presentations.
The need for live captioning for education has long been called for by a persistent few, but their voices are starting to resonate in the halls of universities.
Captioning companies solve particular and distinct problems, so the market for them is relatively small. But like most things in life, there is a range of professionalism, competence, and quality, even within this small industry. Good captioning companies get the job done, but great captioning companies go above and beyond. To spot one of the great ones, you need to look at the following three things…
You’ve probably heard of stenography, but if you haven’t or the only thing you know about it is it has something to do with the person sitting in a courtroom writing everything down, then this short article is for you!
With the Covid-19 pandemic showing no signs of going away, our “new normal” will involve social distancing, greater hygienic practices, and a lot more people working from home or online. Unfortunately, these new norms will create even greater difficulties for deaf and hard of hearing people. The answer may lie in live captioning.
We tend to associate subtitles and closed captions with deaf and hard of hearing people, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
For deaf and hard of hearing students, lectures can be more than a challenge. It’s difficult enough trying to hear someone in a crowded lecture hall, but add in other factors like background noise, low-quality microphones, or difficult subject matter, and even those without hearing problems struggle. Luckily, there is a simple solution to the problem – live captioning.
When it first started back in 2005, YouTube wasn’t exactly impressive. The very first video uploaded was by one of the co-founders entitled Me at the zoo, and the 18-second clip now has a ridiculous 100 million views.
Offline Captioning is a simple concept, but unfortunately, the vast majority of online videos don’t have them. We explain what offline captioning is, where it can be used, and why you should always use captions in your videos.
When you think of a stenographer, you probably picture someone sitting in a courtroom, frantically typing out everything that’s being said, but this is just a simplified version we see on TV. In reality, it’s more complicated than that, and once people start using words like typist, palantypist, and transcriptionist, then things really start to get confusing.