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Forward By Martin Block
Preface
About the Author
An Introduction To Captioning
- What Are Captions?
- Uses of Captioning
The History of Captioning
- A Brief Captioning Timeline
The Technology
- Inside a Color Television
- Elements of a TV Picture
- A Guided Tour of the VBI
- Line 21 - Home of Captioning
- The Line 21 Character Set
- Formatting Options
- Standards and Conventions
- Watching TV on Your Computer
- Standards, They Are A-Changin' (EIA-608 & EIA-708)
Captioning Around the World
- Language Issues
- International Captioning
Offline Captioning
- Creating the Text
- Timecoding
- Caption Placement
Online Captioning
- Online Captioning Concepts
- A Typical Newscast
- Realtime Technology
- Bloopers
- Stenocaptioning vs. Speech Recognition
Captioning Equipment
- Encoders
- Decoders
- Character Generators
- Captioning Software Systems
- Stenotype Keyboards
Related Technologies
- Captioning Live Events
- Realtime in the Courtroom
Internet Captioning
Deaf Culture
- Sign Language vs. Captioning
- Calling Deaf People on the Phone
The Law
- State Laws
- Federal Captioning Laws
- Who's In Charge?
- The Television Decoder Circuitry Act
- The Americans With Disabilities Act
- The Telecommunications Reform Act
How To
- How to Hire a Captioner
- How to Get Your Favorite Show Captioned
- How to Develop Your Realtime Stenocaptioning Skills
- How to Get a Realtime Captioning Job
- How to Start a Captioning Company
Case Studies
- Local News
- Local News Nationally (a different approach)
- National News
- Sports Captioning
- Local Government
- The U.S. Senate
- Church Captioning
- Bilingual Captioning
- Captioned Theater
Captioning Glossary
Captioning Resources Online
- Web Sites
- Mailing Lists
Bibliography & Suggested Reading
Contact Information
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