Subtitling overview Our clients Our services DVD subtitling Live subtitling Voice recognition Delivery and back-up Quality assurance Audio description Endorsements More than 150 hours of television programmes subtitled by Intelfax are transmitted in the UK every week. About 8.7 million people in the UK have some degree of hearing loss - that's one in seven of the population. The number is rising as the number of people over 60 increases.
Subtitles therefore play an important role in the lives of a large proportion of the British public.
The law recognises this need. The 1990 Broadcasting Act made it a requirement for terrestrial television channels to provide subtitles with an increasing proportion of programmes and the 1996 Broadcast Act introduced new targets for digital terrestrial channels. These subtitling targets increase annually. Although the Acts do not currently apply to satellite and cable channels, these channels are starting to transmit more and more programmes with subtitles.