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Originally Posted by Your Mom
Maybe if more people knew about that software then it would be less of a problem..
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Yeah, it took me forever to find that on Google: a whole 15 seconds. It's not that people don't know how, because they could find out. I just think people don't want to, because it's extra work, IMHO.
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Originally Posted by Your Mom
when i sent an email to a local news company they said that they could not add closed captioning because the software it would take to do that would cost 7-10 thousand dollars. Im not asking for some fancy smancy captioning, just something as simple that is found on video blogs would have worked, but they refused saying that they would not only have to pay thousands of dollars for the software but would have to fill an entire new position to get someone to type the broadcasts and pay a lot in training.
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Wait, who is this, refusing to caption what? A news company refused to caption... what? The news? Live closed captions are really expensive, and really hard to produce, because you have to have a stenographer to type about 225 words per minute, and the equipment is expensive. It's rare you see a captionist using a stenomask, open captions, sign language interpreter (still expensive), or other means to make the program accessible. Live captions are expensive, but timed captions can be even more expensive, because it takes about eight to ten hours to caption a half our of content. In conclusion, closed captions for TV can be super expensive, because all the equipment is so proprietary.
Open captions or closed captions for video files are cheap. If the captions aren't an emergency, you can create open captions for any video, or closed captions for video files rather in expensively, or you can do it yourself.
One time, a Deaf friend of mine wanted a transcript of an ALog (Audio Blog) I posted, so he called me with IP-Relay, and I held the phone up to the computer.
Wow, that was so expensive — not. He could have easily e-mailed me the conversation, and I would have posted it in my blog.