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Confiding in Your Closed-Captioning Company

So, you've contracted with a closed-captioning company (or closed-captioner service provider) and now you must put your full confidence in…

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Captioning Styles: Roll-up vs. Pop-on

Roll-up captions Roll-up is a style where the text rolls onto the screen from the bottom or top one line…

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Sign Language vs Closed-Captioning for the Deaf Community

Closed captioning offers essential television access not only for the deaf community but also benefits the elderly, hard-of-hearing individuals, early…

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Captioning as a Family Business

Many captioning companies have their beginnings as a mom-and-pop shop or a husband-and-wife business. Uniquely, Aberdeen got its start as…

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The Benefits of Providing Closed Captioning

Who benefits from captioning? Everyone! A study conducted by The National Institute on Deafness concludes that over 28 million American…

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Closed Captioning: ESL and Literacy

It is estimated that over 1 billion people in the world are learning to speak English! English is now the…

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A Day in the Life of a Caption Editor: Christina’s Story

WANTED: Caption Editor, degree in English preferred. Hmmm… a caption editor? I can edit. I have a degree in English.…

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A Better Outlook on Having to Caption

More and more Americans are depending and counting on closed-captions in their video entertainment.   As a program producer or…

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