The audio section of a television program that is made visible to read by translating the spoken word into written text.
A signal embedded in a video waveform, which, when fed into a captioning decoder, can product subtitles for the hearing impaired on screen.
Text display of spoken dialogue and sounds on TV and videos visible only to those using a caption decoder or TV build-in decoder chip.
transcript of dialogue, hidden in a TV or video signal
Text captions that can be made visible on demand. Open captions are a permanent part of the video signal.
Commonly known by the acronym CC. The text display of dialogue and sounds on a TV broadcast or videotape. Closed captions are only visible through the use of a caption decoder. All television sets 13 inches or larger, manufactured for sale in the United States since July 1, 1993, contain a decoder chip that enables viewers to see the closed captions on the screen.
Written messages which appear on a television or movie screen and which represent the program's auditory messages (primarily dialogue) in written form. Closed captions are revealed through special components of electronic technology (televisions, videos) which are optional with most commercial brands.
A transcription of the audio soundtrack displayed on-screen. You can turn Closed Captions 'On' or 'Off '. The Closed Captions symbol (see right) displays on the i-search banner when Closed Captions are available.
Captions that appear only when special equipment, called decoders, are used.
Text encoded in a NTSC TV signal for display on a TV under user control. Closed caption data are contained in the MPEG-2 stream of a NTSC DVD disc and passed to the TV in the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of the video signal.
Captions which will be invisible when a videotape is played, unless decoding equipment is used to reveal them. This style is most often used for classes which may or may not have a deaf or hard-of-hearing audience, thus giving an instructor the choice of whether or not to utilize the captions for a given student audience.
A signal embedded in a video which is decoded during playback and produces on-screen subtitles for the hearing impaired.
