Online Captioning Only Thanks to CCAC Volunteers

CCAC advocate captions a prominent TV video now online for consumer request. And another success from volunteers!

CCAC contacting the large broadcasting company, yet again, to show good practice.

Join the CCAC to see the video. This one not for distribution any other way, regrets.

Hooray for the CCAC community – we’re going good places.

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Theater Captioning – Yes!

Good video here re theater captioning – and we salute all involved!

 

What’s In a Name? CART Anyone?

Martin Block is a newer member of the CCAC, yet he’s been around!

With his permission, we copy some history here. What’s in a name? Take CART:

• Martin H. Block

  Very few people know or remember where the term “CART” originated, but it goes back to 1982. Joe Karlovits had that spring done the first CART work in the Amy Rowley case before the US Supreme Court, and earlier in the year I had done the first online realtime captioning. We just completed the CAT Committee’s meeting, which I chaired, in New Orleans, and Jill Wilson, then NCRA’s Technology Director, and I were sitting in Pat O’Brien’s after the meeting, sipping Hurricanes, trying to come up with a descriptive name for realtime interpreting, and we came up with “Computer-Assisted Realtime Translation” or CART. Back then, CAT was defined as “Computer-Assisted Translation,” because that is what it was first referred to back when it was developed as a U.S. Government Project. When CART was subsequently renamed, for some reason they did so to maintain the acronym. Changing it from “translation” to “transcription” is fine, but it probably is totally irrelevent in the grand scheme of things. Changing it entirely could serve to confuse the end-users and the marketplace in general, even if it was to a more appropriate name.

  • • We are going to comment here:
    • Fascinating that it might have been termed real time interpreting from the start, because this is what some other countries have decided to do.
    • We believe that ALDA was also involved in the creation of CART – along with perhaps a few others, all around the same time.
    • As many know, in the UK and some other places, it’s called STTR – speech to text reporting
    • Subtitling too – believe it or not, in other places
    • We’ve suggested that some modification for clarification will be helpful for all, and noted that providers and consumers have different perspectives.
    • May the discussions continue.
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CCAC Captions Voice of America Video

Action request from consumer and action from provider members in the CCAC – what a great community.

The story about this advocacy and action will be in the April CCAC newsletter, yet here’s a preview of what all online videos need to do:

http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/videos/CBSCvC0yGKSn/en/261160/

It’s especially irksome when videos about deafness, hearing, hearing loss, and related, do not cc their content.

Not so hard to do, not so costly either, really, you are worth it!

THE FILM Needs Your Video Segment Soon

• THE FILM needs you!
• Your own short video segment with CCAC script.
• Fun! Important 4 international advocacy.
• Email or find info on our web.
• ccacaptioning.org
• ccacaptioning@gmail.com

Action on Hearing Loss, Hear This: Sounds like you are having a super day there today.

Dear ActionOnHearing Loss,

Please also mention the CCAC if not too late today? The more we connect, the better, for all resources needed by millions and millions. As your full day of tweets notes also, those millions in the UK are growing too.

CCAC welcomes all who support the mission – inclusion of quality captioning/subtitling universally.

Read the web, ccacaptioning.org

 

Captioning Quotas Achieved? With Quality?

Read this about UK access on television:

http://www.mediaaccess.org.au/latest_news/general/uk-tv-exceeded-access-quotas-throughout-2011

Noise – A Whole Lot of Noise All Around

While it would be great to reduce noise, we wish the world luck. One of the resources needed by millions of people with hearing loss, or acquired deafness, is quality real time captioning, yes, even in restaurants! 

Meanwhile, we thank the author for this essay. See: 

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304724404577297582674911356-lMyQjAxMTAyMDIwNjEyNDYyWj.html?mod

A lot of people with hearing loss and acquired deafness hear some of many sounds. And/or – the world sounds like noise all the time. And/or – noisy situations make it that much more impossible to follow what is being said. And/or – well – you get the picture. 

Government – Captioning needed now!

Especially now, we need informed voters. Don’t leave us out!

See this great video from Minnesota:

 

Stay informed, advocate, and tell us all about it. Thanks!

P.S. have a look over the entire link here: http://www.mncdhh.org/legislators/

A Film Opportunity for Captioning Advocacy!

 

ALL COUNTRIES! Email for the script ASAP please – use your webcam, iphone, video on camera – we’d like your submissions soon. Questions? Ccacaptioning@gmail.com (Script to be spoken in English only.)

THE FILM! contact CCAC now to be emailed the Film Instructions. We want YOU to be in our film – for new international campaign to raise awareness about needs for captioning/subtitling inclusion in everyday life. It’s going to be a good one! Email ccacaptioning@gmail.com, share to your networks (for those who use speech to text). Thanks! Lauren for The Film Team 🙂