Inside Captioning
- 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
- Bibliography & Suggested Reading
- Contact Information
- Index