Often, real-time captions are produced at a different location from the programming and are transmitted by phone lines. In addition to live, real-time captioning, captions are being put on prerecorded video, rental movies, and educational and training tapes using a similar process but enabling error correction. Only material that is scripted can be captioned using this technique. Therefore, spontaneous commentary, live field reports, breaking news, and sports and weather updates may not be captioned using ENR, and real-time captioning is needed. Edited and verbatim captions Captions can be produced as either edited or verbatim captions.
Edited captions summarize ideas and shorten phrases.
Verbatim captions include all of what is said. Although there are situations in which edited captions have been preferred for ease in reading, most people who are deaf or hard of hearing prefer the full access provided by verbatim texts. Rear window captioning Nearly a dozen movie theaters across the country are offering this type of captioning. A cupholder holds a lucite panel that reflects the captions off the back wall of the theatre. Researchers are studying caption features, speeds, and the effects of visual impairments on reading captions.