Comments on: The Devil in the Details – The Power and Limits of Captioning http://ahearingloss.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/ A global forum for people with hearing loss Tue, 22 May 2012 22:04:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: lifewrecked http://ahearingloss.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-263 Mon, 12 May 2008 18:06:25 +0000 http://ahearingloss.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-263 Thanks Boult – and sorry so late to approve – it got marked as spam. ;)

For those of a more sensitive nature, I’d recommend the quite fascinating home site of The Open and Closed Project – who produced that page:

http://openandclosed.org/

Cheers,
Paul S – AKA: LifeWrecked

]]> By: Boult http://ahearingloss.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-229 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:54:41 +0000 http://ahearingloss.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-229 Suggested visit: http://captioningsucks.com/

]]> By: LifeWrecked http://ahearingloss.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-212 Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:59:05 +0000 http://ahearingloss.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-212 Haven’t done it, but I’ve often thought of compiling a list of some of the best “caption bloopers” I’ve seen. I too work in an industry full of strange terms and acronyms (healthcare anaylysis) that frequently stump captioners. Funniest is when a technical term becomes risque or even downright filthy.

]]> By: mjc http://ahearingloss.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-198 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:39:16 +0000 http://ahearingloss.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-198 With captioning at work, there are also vocabulary issues. I have a captioned phone at home, but it’s useless for calls from work. My colleagues and I need to use words that are just not part of the mainstream vocabulary: kozo, abaca, Jaques shear, su-geta, Vandercook, and on and on…even the best captioners don’t know what they’re hearing. So I’ll get calls that read, “There’s a problem with the (unclear). When I added the (unclear), it (unclear)and then (unclear).”
Or worse, they guess. So it ends up being the same as not having any assistance at all. (Though sometimes the errors do provide a lot of entertainment).

]]> By: rainingcats http://ahearingloss.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-194 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:36:27 +0000 http://ahearingloss.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/the-devil-in-the-details-the-power-and-limits-of-captioning/#comment-194 Hi Paul,
Kim here with a new log-in name. I’m just having fun creating more new blogs that I don’t use and downloading pictures. Anyway– see that’s why I decided to learn ASL. Though I admit it won’t help me at work. But I figure the more communication avenues available, the better. I was surprised to learn that people can actually “talk” faster in ASL than we can. It’s because they can communicate an entire sentence in just a couple hand + arm movements. Each sign isn’t always signed singly. They can be combined together to make one swift smooth movement to convey a concept that would take several words in English. On the other hand, because it’s such a different type of communication it challenges you to think differently. I’m not sure I’ll ever be fluent, but I do like it when people talk and sign to me.

I realize this article isn’t about ASL, it’s about captioning. There are drawbacks of captioning that rarely gets discussed among the late-deafened and hard-of-hearing, so I thought I would bring the ASL alternative to the table.

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