Reviews
Downey’s book provides a through explanation of how the technology developed, and after reading Closed Captioning, you will never again take the technology for granted and you will clearly understand its role as a communication medium.
Downey's historical approach sheds light on the origins of innovations born of practical necessity that are driving current media trends.
An impressive and ambitious account of the history of the technology, geography, labor, and politics of three speech-to-text systems—subtitling, closed captioning for television, and court reporting. It is original, well written and researched, and an important book.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Invisible Speech-to-Text Systems
Part One: Turning Speech into Text in Three Different Contexts
1. Subtitling Film for the Cinema Audience
2. Captioning Television for the
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Invisible Speech-to-Text Systems
Part One: Turning Speech into Text in Three Different Contexts
1. Subtitling Film for the Cinema Audience
2. Captioning Television for the Deaf Population
3. Stenographic Reporting for the Court System
Part Two: Convergence in the Speech-to-Text Industry
4. Realtime Captioning for News, Education, and the Court
5. Public Interest, Market Failure, and Captioning Regulation
6. Privatized Geographies of Captioning and Court Reporting
Conclusion: The Value of Turning Speech into Text
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index