Closed Captions
By stealthy
@stealthy (8181)
United States
April 2, 2011 6:26pm CST
I watched part of the finals of the women's tennis tournament in Miami today and both Maria Sharapova and Azarenka were giving out the loud screams when they hit the ball. Sharapova is known for this, but Azarenka was matching her in volume and sounded almost the same. I suddenly had the thought whether their screams were depicted somehow on the the closed captioning for the hearing impaired. How could they do them justice? In this case they were very similar but how would very different screams be noted?
2 responses
@sswallace21 (1824)
• United States
3 Apr 11
OMG, this had me laughing.
I can't imagine the what with hearing impaired must have to read on the screen. Ugh, ugh, Ugh, ugh. You get the drift. Just curious did you turn the closed caption on to see what it said, if anything. I don't watch tennis but this was funny. Best Wishes!
I can't imagine the what with hearing impaired must have to read on the screen. Ugh, ugh, Ugh, ugh. You get the drift. Just curious did you turn the closed caption on to see what it said, if anything. I don't watch tennis but this was funny. Best Wishes!
@bardgirl (362)
• United States
4 Apr 11
Close captions aren't always right. There was this one episode of Buffy where there was close caption that had nothing to do with what was going on since there wasn't any audible dialogue. It was something about a purple wedding dress. I think they usually try to put the name at least of the person speaking but I would imagine it could get pretty confusing if you happen to be deaf since it isn't always easy to know which person is talking.
