“I was born in a Deaf family. My parents are Deaf. My sister is Deaf.” This was the opening to Thibault Duchemin’s initial investor pitch for his company Ava, a real-time captioning product. Ava was ...

Live captioning (also commonly referred to as real-time captioning or CART) provides a synchronous translation of spoken English into written English text. The translated text is displayed on a screen ...

Automated captions are generated using automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology. On this page, we review a few commonly used tools that have automated captioning available. While automated ...

Although the FCC established rules for the carriage of closed captioning quite some time ago, the process of generating, encoding and transmitting captions has had to adapt to the evolution of digital ...

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Fox News is pleased to offer closed captioning on many Fox News programs made available online and through mobile apps. Programs with closed captioning will have a ...

Whether you've encountered its unmistakable white text on black background at the gym, in a bar, or on the couch, you're familiar with closed captioning. Here's a brief history of the technology that ...

The other night, my hubby and I snuggled down to have some quiet time in front of the TV when it occurred to us that the closed captioning feature was activated on one of the channels. As we fiddled ...

In 1927, the television was invented: for the first time in human history, technology allowed for a way to transmit information visually. That could have been a breakthrough for Deaf communities—but ...

The move was lauded by advocates for the deaf and the hard of hearing, but theater owners worry audiences don’t want captions. By Vimal Patel AMC Entertainment, the largest movie theater chain in the ...