Realtime Captioning - TV News and Live Presentations
(With Steno Machine)
Published in The Community Ear, February 1996
by Dr. Dilip Som
There are three types of captions:
Post production captions (Pop-on) for movies, videos, TV sitcoms, TV soap operas etc.
Teleprompting captions (Roll-up) for speeches and presentations with prepared scripts and low budget local TV news.
Realtime captions (Roll-up) for TV news, TV talk shows and live presentations - situations where there is no prepared scripts available beforehand.