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Re: Closed Captioning New Media?

Patrick — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:11:08 -0000

Ed, Great thoughts. I'm actually working on a presentation at the South By Southwest Interactive festival that looks at captioning web content (specifically video). There are ways and tools freely available to create captioned online content. Take a look at MAGpie, for one: http://ncam.wgbh.org/webacc...

Cheers!

Re: Closed Captioning New Media?

Jenson — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:15:59 -0000

new media conferences sound fun.... I think I would dig that!

Re: Closed Captioning New Media?

EbanC — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:11:51 -0000

Wow Ed, another thing to think about. I was not trying to be insensitive, this topic just did not cross my mind. This is big as the launch of the Animated series is approaching.

Now, how do I accomplish this? I need to try and figure this out. Don't know if the first episodes ready to go, but hopefully I can get something going soon.

Cheers for the brain re-start!

Re: Closed Captioning New Media?

Michelle / chel pixie — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:04:41 -0000

Great idea!

As a person who is hard of hearing and who relies on CC during tv shows when I don't want to turn the sound up or use my hearing aids, I love the idea of providing CC.

My dream is when podcasters can afford to do transcripts of their shows so I can more easily understand the dialogue or even live closed captioning of talkshoe calls, etc. If I can't read your lips then I can't understand you sometimes. :/

Re: Closed Captioning New Media?

admin — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:12:10 -0000

Isreal, very cool. Glad you took the initiative to start using iTunes's CC options.

I'll have to take a look at the tutorial.

Re: Closed Captioning New Media?

Israel Melendez, Jr. — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:06:09 -0000

I certainly love your question "So, what can YOU do to make your content more available to the hearing or visually impaired? Do you think it is worth it?"

I thought about it a couple of years ago mainly because English is my second language and I wanted to produce content in Spanish but make it available to English speaking people. Although that was the original intent, I quickly learned that there is a huge community in the Internet without video content that they can enjoy.

Jumping to today, I produce the first closed captioned video podcast distributed in iTunes. Since iTunes 7.4 and QuickTime 7.2 now support standard embedded closed captions (CEA-608 as it is known), I quickly jumped to it. It took me a while to learn the trade but my videos are now done with real CC.

In order to spread the word, I went a little further and decided to make a tutorial on how to closed caption a video, video podcast, etc.

The tutorial can be found in episode 008 of TECNOCATO HD (CC): "HOW TO CLOSED CAPTION" and you can get it by subscribing for free at:
http://phobos.apple.com/Web...

It is not the only way to caption but I hope that more solutions will come along. You can visit my site at http://www.tecnocato.com

The closed captions are compatible with the software players (both PC and Mac) and with the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Re: Closed Captioning New Media?

jeff — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:20:50 -0000

Hey Ed

I dont have a show I do but yeah that never crossed my mind about close captioning or whatever it might be for someone with a disability.

I think it is a great idea to come up with ways to help others who might not be able to see or hear an event or show or whatever.

jeff

Re: Closed Captioning New Media?

Daniel Johnson, Jr. — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:09:17 -0000

Ed, I think there is a great opportunity to reach a group of people that would not ordinarily get a message.

As a parent of a child who is hard of hearing, we rely HEAVILY on close-captioning and subtitles. It's become second nature for us to always have the captions on, and our daughter always makes sure we have captions or subtitles on when we watch a DVD.

She has not been that keen on podcasting because it's mostly audio. Even with her hearing aids, she still misses some things.

I would like to know what technology exists that makes producing audio or video with synchronized lyrics or subtitles or captions.

Thanks for getting the conversation going.