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"Inside Captioning" is for anyone interested in closed captioning, not just the broadcasters. it contains information about all aspects of captioning, including: The Technology -- EIA-608, EIA-708, captioning equipment, timecodes, how a color TV works, European Teletext, ATV/HDTV, digital captioning (MPEG, DVD, CD-ROM, D1/D2) and a guided tour of the VBI. The History -- how Line 21 captioning came about, milestones in captioning development in the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia, and the history of machine realtime and realtime captioning. The People -- including case studies of captioning news, sports, church services, city government, the U.S. Senate, the Internet, live theater, and multilingual realtime captioning. The Vocabulary -- a 20-page glossary of captioning terminology. The Laws -- The ADA, the Television Decoder Circuitry Act, the Telecommunications Reform Act, and other U.S. & Canadian laws. The Procedures -- Captioning standards and practices, and "How to" sections on getting shows captioned, hiring captioners, becoming a captioner, and starting a captioning company. And More! Bloopers, deaf culture, contact information, related technologies (e.g., CART), voice recognition, and an examination of international and multilingual captioning issues.
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From the Author:
Alfred Kazin once said, "The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax." That quote describes how I feel about writing Inside Captioning better than anything I could have come up with. When you attempt to explain a complex subject clearly and concisely, that is when you suddenly realize how much there is to know about it. Writing this book was a phenomenal learning experience for me, and I hope it will be half as useful to you as a reader. This book is intended as an introduction and in-depth guidebook to closed captioning for anyone from the professional to the curious consumer. Broadcasters, court reporters, captioners, deaf and hard-of-hearing people, and the populace at large should all find something of use herein. I certainly hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
About the Author:
Gary Robson has been in the computer business for over 20 years, and the captioning and court reporting software business for over 10. With Richard Sherman, he co-authored The Court Reporter's Guide to Cyberspace (1996, CyberDawg Publishing), a 350-page guide to telecommunications, data transfer, and the Internet for court reporting professionals. He was the 1997 recipient of the Andrew Saks Engineering Award by TDI for his "outstanding contribution to improving the visual accessibility of information." He has also written numerous articles on the conjunction of captioning and computers, on subjects ranging from captioning city governments and radio broadcasts to speech recognition. Many of those articles are available online at Gary's Web site (www.robson.org/gary), including the comprehensive Frequently Asked Questions about Closed Captioning. He has put on seminars and panel discussions about closed captioning for many groups, including the International Television Association (ITVA), the United States Department of Education, Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc., national, state, and local reporting associations, and various legal groups. He has also been an instructor in the National Court Reporting Association (NCRA) Realtime and Certified Legal Video Specialist (CLVS) workshops. In the captioning and court reporting world, Gary was a credentialed Computer-Aided Transcription (CAT) instructor for a California community college. In 1987, he founded Cheetah Systems with his wife, Kathy (a CSR, RPR, and CRR who does city council and television news captioning). He has been a principal designer for all of Cheetah's captioning, CAT, and legal software, as well as the Gemini ergonomic stenotype machine. He is currently the Chairman and Chief Technology Officer of Cheetah Systems and Cheetah Broadcasting, the new Internet Broadcasting company. In the field of computers and electronics, Gary has written numerous software programs (including a minicomputer operating system), designed seven integrated circuits, run a manufacturing facility, started four electronics companies (three of which are still operating), written software manuals, and worked on just about every microcomputer from the original Altair 8800 to the latest PCs, Macintoshes, and Unix machines. He was a contributing editor for VLSI Design magazine (a chip design publication), a member of the Editorial Board for Silicon Systems Design magazine, a book reviewer for IT Solutions (the magazine of UniForum), has given seminars on using computers for chip design in the United States and France, and consulted for the U.S. Department of Defense on IC design systems. Gary set up the groundbreaking realtime captioning of Vice President Al Gore's speech on CompuServe in 1994, realtime captioning on the Internet for the Discovery Channel in 1995, and realtime captioning on America Online and the World Wide Web in 1996. He has taught numerous captioning and realtime seminars, both solo and with his wife, Kathy. Gary created one of the first captioning-related World Wide Web sites (http://www.caption.com), on which the Caption FAQ currently resides.
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- PublisherNational Court Reporters Assoc
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0965960900
- ISBN 13 9780965960908
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages245
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