http://blog.fawny.org/2006/03/09/tdi-fcc/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19861 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/03/09/tdi-fcc/comment-page-1/#comment-193 The freakonomics of captioning errors – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:03:26 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2006/03/09/tdi-fcc/#comment-193 [...] I was thinking about this while reading the many FCC interventions. Let’s start with real-time captioning, that is, captioning produced by a stenographic process. It is ordinarily reserved for live events, but now also used by cheap-ass producers who don’t give a shit about captioning and shop only on price. Qualified stenotypists can produce 180 words a minute for long periods. That’s actually a conservative estimate. My esteemed colleague Gary D. Robson, who really should start answering my E-mails, writes in The Closed Captioning Handbook: “Real-time stenocaptioners must regularly work at sustained speeds of over 225 words per minute with accuracy of 99% or better.” [...] [...] I was thinking about this while reading the many FCC interventions. Let’s start with real-time captioning, that is, captioning produced by a stenographic process. It is ordinarily reserved for live events, but now also used by cheap-ass producers who don’t give a shit about captioning and shop only on price. Qualified stenotypists can produce 180 words a minute for long periods. That’s actually a conservative estimate. My esteemed colleague Gary D. Robson, who really should start answering my E-mails, writes in The Closed Captioning Handbook: “Real-time stenocaptioners must regularly work at sustained speeds of over 225 words per minute with accuracy of 99% or better.” [...]

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