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Has anyone heard anything about typing closed captioning - Hanging On

Posted: Aug 29, 2014

Would that maybe be an option for those of us in need for work? That's not something I'd think would be going away and I remember hearing years ago that the pay was better than MT. Though what's happened to that field in the years since, I have no clue. I just can't imagine that every being outsourced.

Done by SR - Sorry

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My organization produces huge volumes of training and other video presentations, like patient education. Enough to fill 4 or 5 channels 24 hours a day. All of it is closed-captioned, live, because we have a lot of deaf employees and hearing-impaired patients. Every bit of it is done automatically by SR. It's just fine, too. No editing is done.

Lots of Errors - Meh

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I was watching a TV program the other day and it had closed captioning and had some unbelievable errors, like the person who typed it must be almost illiterate. But maybe because TV show was done by SR?

I sometimes turn on closed captioning just for a laugh... - Kiki

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At first I thought, is the person typing this even listening to the show? It's always so blatantly and ridiculously INCORRECT...so much so that it is hilarious to watch and read what CC puts out. Now I realize that it's just unedited SR. I feel bad for deaf people who have to read this crap...they will have no idea what the show is really about.

Done by SR - suzncatznkidz

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We have our phone service through Vonage, and we have elected the option to have our voice mail also sent to us via e-mail in a speech-"recognized" typed message, as my husband is profoundly deaf and cannot hear the voice messages. I would say 90% of those messages are pretty much gibberish, and the other 10% have enough accurate words that that we can kind of make out the general topic of the message.

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