Credits & Resources
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks very much to Professor Lynn Conway and the members of Visual Communcations 1998: Connie Bridges, Chaim Kram, Tarek Matt, Jehan Noon, Dan Turnas and Rachel Weingrad. We appreciate your thoughtful feedback along the way. Thanks also to James Totten of WKBD (Channel 50) for corresponding with us about caption systems in television stations.
Resources
CAPTIONING COMPANIES
The Caption Center
One of the largest caption companies. Site includes general Information about how they perform closed captioning today.
VITAC
Another large captioning company. Site includes FCC rules on captioning.
CaptionMax
This company specializes in captioning prerecorded videos. Provide a good overview of the caption process.
Captioning.Com
Biased but interesting discussion of voice recognition software vs. human caption-stenographers.
Rapid Text
A captioning group that provides on-site and remote captioning. Remote captioning is performed via modems.
CAPTIONING TECHNOLOGY AT PRESENT
Encoders
CPC Hardware Company
A caption encoder. Includes description of product and prices.
Norpak
The top of the line caption encoders. Norpak basically provides all of US
television stations with encoders.
Ultech
A good quality encoder. Site includes description of the versatility of the encoders and price information.
Script Formation
CaptionMaker
Software that allows a user to edit text and scripts and output the correct format to an encoder.
Caption Capturing
TextGrabber
TextGrabber combines software and hardware to recapture the text stream from encoded caption streams.
STATE OF THE ART: CAPTIONING ISSUES
Microsoft: SAMI
SAMI (Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange) is a file format for multimedia captioning
specifically oriented towards captioning over the internet.
DTV & CC Standards
Discussion and specs on digital captioning.
Advanced Captioning Article
Discussion of the potential variations of captions, including color and font issues.
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SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE & HARDWARE
Dragon's Naturally Speaking Software
Voice recognition software for PC. NaturallySpeaking has continuous voice recognition capability when trained for a user.
Parrot
Example of a microphone designed for speech recognition.
LANGUAGE TRANSLATION
Language Translation Software
Software was developed for the U.S. Department of Defense. (Price list included)
Teletranslator
Captioning system that translates English captions into Spanish.
VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS HARDWARE
Canon VC-C1
Example of a camera designed for visual communications.
"InterCaption: Facilitating Communication Through Captioning"
© K. Acker, T. Lytle, J. Porvin (1998)
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