While there are many situations where using our imagination is a good thing, unfortunately, many of the places with live captioning are not among them. For example: med school lectures, court proceedings, church.
It's standard for court reporters & legislative transcribers to edit their transcriptions before submitting them as "the official record," but AFAIK, no live captioning is ever edited (even when the show is rebroadcast a year later)!
Deaf children commonly test at the 4th grade reading level, so figuring out what's meant for "i sack him off" assumes a too high a level of meta-understanding.
(One of the reasons why sports captionists look so good is there's a limited name space, and they load all the likely names into the software before they begin the show.)
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While there are many situations where using our imagination is a good thing, unfortunately, many of the places with live captioning are not among them. For example: med school lectures, court proceedings, church.
It's standard for court reporters & legislative transcribers to edit their transcriptions before submitting them as "the official record," but AFAIK, no live captioning is ever edited (even when the show is rebroadcast a year later)!
Deaf children commonly test at the 4th grade reading level, so figuring out what's meant for "i sack him off" assumes a too high a level of meta-understanding.
(One of the reasons why sports captionists look so good is there's a limited name space, and they load all the likely names into the software before they begin the show.)