If you've ever watched a YouTube video with auto-generated closed captioning, you know the garbled result is giggle-worthy. But it's actually a major problem. Inadequate closed captioning is failing ...

Closed captioning for NTSC became a mature and reliable technology serving the deaf and hard of hearing community over nearly three decades, but the ATSC signal for DTV has ushered in a new ...

No, AI is not taking over our beloved captions quite yet. It’s hard enough to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Imagine spelling every word given to every contestant. That was Annah Koenig ...

We are pleased to offer closed captioning on all live simulcast streams made available through mobile browsers and mobile apps. Videos with closed captioning will ...

More than 120 million Americans benefit from closed-captioning, including 28 million people who are deaf and/or hard-of-hearing people, 26 million elementary school children practicing reading skills, ...

“I was born in a Deaf family. My parents are Deaf. My sister is Deaf.” This was the opening to Thibault Duchemin’s initial investor pitch for his company Ava, a real-time captioning product. Ava was ...

Sometimes I turn on my TV and the closed-captioning feature has been activated. I can’t find the button to turn it off, so I think: It won’t distract me. And yet, I usually find it impossible to ...

How the 'Queer Eye' closed captioning came to be fixed, experts say, shows how captioning can easily go wrong, and how social-media users and advocates are helping to reform still-rampant ...

Paul LukasPatti White works on her transcription duties at a Cardinals game during a rare visit to the stadium. If you've attended a New York Mets game over the past season or two, you may have ...

Although the FCC established rules for the carriage of closed captioning quite some time ago, the process of generating, encoding and transmitting captions has had to adapt to the evolution of digital ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about diversity and inclusion in the realm of disabilities. On November 27, the National Association of the Deaf (N.A.D.) ...