What does Live programme captions mean?
Live programme captions present speech and important audio information as text while a programme is being produced. They may appear with a delay and can include corrections because the content is not fully prepared in advance.
Why it matters
News, sport and live discussion create a different captioning task from a finished drama. Speakers can interrupt one another, unfamiliar names can arise and the programme can change without warning. A brief textual delay is therefore not always a player timing problem. Captions can be valuable for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing and for people watching in a noisy room. Availability belongs to the particular programme and distribution route. A channel offering captions on one device does not prove that every copy or stream includes them.
A practical example
During a live interview, a speaker’s name may initially appear incorrectly and then be corrected. That can be part of real-time caption production, whereas a fixed subtitle error in an on-demand film may come from a prepared text track.
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Related terminology: Live edge, Live sports coverage.
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