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Caption Action 2: February Newsletter
This is the Caption Action 2 newsletter for February 2010! We managed to get a few more new cosponsors, but there is a big problem, and we need your help! NEW COSPONSORS In January and early February, four more Representatives signed on to HR 3101, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009: Mass… Read More
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Hello everyone..Here's a story I did on Rick Boucher, the Chair of the Sub-committee in which HR 3101 is currently languishing.
http://thumpaflash.livejournal.com/23...
Ben, don't blame Hulu. Hulu is captioning voluntarily, and can only caption if the broadcasters give them the caption files for reformatting for Hulu.
I missed few lately NCIS episodes (my favorite show). I am disappointed and angry that cbs.com and hulu.com wont show CC video on all NCIS eposides. I hope some day they will.
that would be cool if ito have CC in a movie theatre and they might get their more money by deaf ppls coming to see the movie with CC
This is something that's a huge issue in America. I don't care if you donate or not...just please be aware.
That is very great that many deaf need to read & understand by internet & open Closed Captioning in movie theatres also computer that deaf & hard of hearing need to read them.
WRAD is for more captioning on the internet and open captioning in movie theatres. We must continue to fight for the rights of deaf and hard of hearing people to have FULL equality and accessibility!
i think it is marvelous that it is possible to help people who are deaf easier ways to relate to everything around them
Here is a closed caption version of the trailer video for the movie "See What I'm Saying" Thanks 22frames!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovf4Z7...
Thanks, Cody, for the update.
Seems we also had Tom Cole of Oklahoma. For the record, both Representatives Paul Broun and Tom Cole are Republican, not Democrat.
Attention! Attention!
We all have enjoyed the technological marvel of watching TV, movies, and (some) online Captioning to enrich our knowledge, improve our grammar, and interacting with loved ones and friends.
I want to share this story I found reading at ESPN homepage and this writer has no clue HOW hard it is for Captioners(or translators) to punch in words after words like 400-500 words a minute in a 'Live action' settings. The writer's name is Rick Reilly of ESPN Magazine. On occasions, we watch our news Live and there is about 98% of the time that the captioning that are shown are typed correctly. I know it's tough, sometimes, for people who have done such an outstanding job of typing the words with little typing errors now and then. I'm disappointed in Rick's story. He and his research geeks should have done a better job at it to explain the story than just an overnight observation for the heck of it!
READ the story below:
Updated: December 16, 2009, 10:12 AM ET
The bottom line
Want the real game story? Check the closed captioning
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Reilly By Rick Reilly
ESPN The Magazine
Archive
Getty ImagesNdamukong Suh is not a name that a stenographer ever wants to hear.
This column appears in the December 28 issue of ESPN The Magazine.
I like bars. I like sports. I like watching sports in bars. This is a topic my wife could discuss with you at length. But I couldn't fully enjoy this hobby if it weren't for an invention more miraculous than even boneless teriyaki chicken wings: closed captioning.
Closed captioning, or, as many closed captioners spell it, CLOTHES CAP SHUNNING, is what stenographers type onto the bottom of your screen, moving faster than a double-parked meth freak, when you press "CC" on your remote.
These people are generally very good at their jobs, but sports announcers spew between 150 and 200 words per minute, and most stenographers were French majors at Swarthmore, so mistakes are made.
I've seen HALL OF FAME LINEBACKER DICK BUTT KISS, and Atlanta Brave Chipper Jones come up to BAT RYE HANDED. (I wonder if Babe Ruth ever did that?) I've watched MIKE PIZZA and MIKE PIZZERIA. I've seen a thousand FIELD GOLDS and a few hundred torn INTERIOR CRUCIAL LIGAMENTS, some belonging to members of the Alabama RIMS AND TIDE.
Good athletes compete for THE GOLD MEDDLE (as does Redskins owner Daniel Snyder), and bad athletes are JUST OUT OF SINK. Quick-release quarterbacks GET IT OFTENTIMES (and, here, I believe the subject is Tom Brady).
The point is I ghoulishly relish captioning mistakes. Also, my mouth relishes beer. No surprise then that a very, very easy column hit me like an angry wife's 3-iron: What if I spent the entire weekend in bars seeing how many captioning goofs I could catch?
God, I love this job.
FRIDAY
We must be vigilant in our quest, so we started early -- 3 p.m. PST, just about when Michael Wilbon of PTI issued this statement about soccer, according to the captioner: I EXPECT TO WATCH THE WORLD COUPLE ALL MONTH. (Exactly which channel will that be on again?)
Then there were these:
Jim Hill, Channel 2, LA: Tiger was found SHOELESS AND SNOWING. (Actually, the snowing came later, during the cover-up.)
Lingerie football (hey, we said we'd be vigilant!), Channel 32, LA: HANDOFF TO THE LOVE SIDE. Also, a second and eight became THE SECOND THEY ATE.
On Channel 9, LA: David Beckham is from YOUR UP (but not from CROW ATE YA).
TIGER WAS FOUND SHOELESS AND SNOWING.
SATURDAY
The 8 a.m. SportsCenter captioner identified Cavs forward Jamario Moon as GENTLEMAN MARIO MOON. (Perhaps they're in a book club together.) On ESPNU, Alabama receiver Julio Jones came out JEWEL I DON'T JONES. And on Channel 7 in LA, Clemson running back C.J. Spiller's 4 TDs were sure to get him his IN-FLIGHT TO THE HEISMAN TROPHY DINNER. (Useful new word: Invite + free ticket = in-flight!)
CC fun fact: The first closed-captioning message on TV, produced in the 1970s by Bill Kastner of Texas Instruments, was FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY, STING LIKE A BEE.
Okay, so Saturday was a slow day.
SUNDAY
One of the delicious moments for those of us captivated by captions is the three seconds between an announcer's saying something ear-twisting and the captioner's typing it. On ESPN's The Sports Reporters, host John Saunders said, "The best player I saw yesterday was [Nebraska's monster defensive tackle] Ndamukong Suh" [pronounced en-DOM-ah-ken SOO].
I could almost hear the captioner gasp, cough and whimper. But, bless his or her heart, it was one valiant attempt: INCOME CONGRESS SUE (an idea, I think, we can all agree on).
CC fun fact: Real-time captioners for the National Captioning Institute can clock 300 words per minute. They average 7,000 words an hour, which is a carpal tunnel-inducing 14,000 keystrokes every 60 minutes.
On the Fox NFL pregame show, the Colts were the FIRST TEAM TO CLENCH ITS DIVISION. (Don't ask.) And Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said his team would UNLEASH HOWL IN DECEMBER. (Poor dog gets off the leash only once a month?)
And that was about it. Remember, the point here was not to show all the mistakes the captioners make as they translate hundreds of thousands of live sports-TV words. The point was for me to drink many, many Coronas on an expense account.
Anyone complains, and I unleash Howl.
Love the column, hate the column, got a better idea? Go here.
Want more Life of Reilly? Then check out the archive.
Be sure to check out Rick's latest project, "Go Fish."
We are developers of 22frames.com and we’ve been rooting for HR 3101 for a while. It’s great to see this Facebook Cause up and active. In the future, we hope to extend some more of the donations made to our search engine to this Facebook Cause, no matter how small.
Hey! Do you think we should tell Sprint Relay that the movie they are promoting on line and through YouTube isn't captioning the trailer video's they r posting? To tired to enter them in my adrees book tonight but here they are......karl.a.ewan@sprint.com
arthur.s.moore@sprint.com
kenneth.a.goulston@sprint.com
vcs@sprintrelaystore.com" target="_blank">http://www.sprintrelaystore.com/vcs@s...
Can anyone give information on who/what is fighting against this legislation for captioning?
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See What I'm Saying - trailer
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Who Cosponsors HR 1646, 3024, and 3101
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House of Representatives Spreadsheet
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I find it very frustrating when people think that kids with cochlear implants do not need captioning.