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.
Lip reading is one of these things that everyone knows what it is, but they don’t actually know very much about it. There are some surprising facts about lip reading as well as some common misconceptions, so we’ve put together this short article to tell you everything you need to know.