television captions?

Question

this question probably sounds dumb but who do captions get on tv?

Answer 1

For shows with live captioning, there is a captioner that sits at a keyboard and types the graphic as the announcer speaks. They have to be very fast typers and process what they're hearing very quickly. That's why you'll sometimes see the captioning go wrong or be misspelled. For previously taped TV shows and commercials with captioning, what happens is that a finished tape of the show or commercial is sent to a captioning service along with a script. The captioners type up the dialogue, sound effects, and music lyrics, etc. into a code which is imbedded into the broadcast copy of the tape so that when it is aired, people's TV sets can translate the captioning code.

A couple of my friends do captioning out in Hollywood. For an entry level job, captioners make pretty good money.

Answer 2

I'm not exactly sure how they get on there, but for each show that has captioning, there was a person sitting there watching it and typing it all out.

I know someone who does it for a living. She has to get up at ungodly hours to do the captioning for live sports that are being done across the globe.