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Closed captioning : subtitling, stenography, and the digital convergence of text with television
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Closed captioning : subtitling, stenography, and the digital convergence of text with television

Author: Gregory John Downey
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Series: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Traces the development of closed captioning - a field that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s from a decades-long intersection of cinematic subtitling, courtroom stenography, and education for the deaf.  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gregory John Downey
ISBN: 9780801887109 0801887100
OCLC Number: 137331379
Description: ix, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Invisible speech-to-text systems --
pt. 1. Turning speech into text in three different contexts --
Subtitling film for the cinema audience --
Captioning television for the deaf population --
Stenographic reporting for the court system --
pt. 2. Convergence in the speech-to-text industry --
Realtime captioning for news, education, and the court --
Public interest, market failure, and captioning regulation --
Privatized geographies of captioning and court reporting --
Conclusion: The value of turning speech into text.
Series Title: Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology (Unnumbered)
Responsibility: Gregory J. Downey.
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