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Closed captions have become a staple of the TV- and movie-watching experience. For some, it's a way to decipher muddled dialogue. For others, like those who are deaf or hard of hearing, it's a ...

When you want to read what is being said on a television program, movie, or video you turn on the captions. Looking under the hood to see how this text is delivered is a fascinating story that stared ...

WASHINGTON—For broadcasters, closed captioning has moved beyond being an FCC requirement checkbox. As the number of viewing devices and screens multiply exponentially, closed captioning has evolved ...

Canvas Studio uses automated speech recognition (ASR) technology to make automatic captions available for video content. While automatically generated captions are a great starting point, it is ...

Regular readers of this column know a number of the stories that appear in this space reflect the convergence of technology, disability, and Hollywood. To name just two examples, the last few weeks ...

When we last checked in with AI-powered captioning service Ava, they had just raised a seed round and it was six months into a pandemic that would reshape how we all work together. Eighteen months ...

Live Caption, Google’s automatic captioning system first introduced at its I/O developer conference this May, is now officially available, alongside the launch of the new Pixel 4. But unlike some of ...