All new televisions sold in the U.S. have caption decoders built in, so push that button and see what it's like.
       The captioning on videotaped shows will be just what you expect, but live captioning, captioning that is performed as the words are spoken, such as live news broadcasts, is a bit diffent. It's impossible to be perfect when someone is speaking at 180 to 280 words per minute, so you may see some errors you just don't understand. You may see what appeared to be misspelled words or strange collections of characters and wondered what was going on?
       Well, for an explanation of these things, take a moment and look at Hearing With Your Eyes!
      To provide closed/open captioning, we use special software and hardware that, when combined with our talented writers, allows us to place the text from our realtime translation output into the Vertical Blanking Interval of television broadcasts and/or videotape. Again, this can be done on site or remotely. Remember, captions are an aid to the hearing community as well as the deaf and HOH community. It allows your words to be easily translated into foreign languages and it also helps those that are learning English as a second language. Through the use of captions in cartoons, children have greatly improved their reading skills, and this is true for adults as well.
       There is a very large deaf and hard of hearing community, and they are also consumers. In fact very loyal consumers if your business proves itself to be Deaf Freindly, which it can easily be with a little education of your staff and the use of closed captioning and TTY telephones. These telephones have a keyboard and a text display so you can communicate with your prospective deaf and hard of hearing clients. If you have a product or service that you wish to market you should not overlook this group, and for a small additional expense your message will reach a much larger market. Closed captioning your television broadcast, commercial or product announcement, gets your message out!

And when the show is over?!

And don't forget, you are also provided with a textual archive which can be used for disseminating your information via hardcopy, the Internet usenet news groups, your web site, e-mail, etc., as well as providing future reference for yourself or your company. Although we consider all project material to be proprietary to our clients, RealTime Reporters does archive all projects! Can't find your copy? Give us a call and within minutes we can supply the information you seek.
       For other sites listing captioning services and information try Jamie Berke's Closed Captioning Web.
       And you don't have to be in Washington to benefit from Gerry Grimm's DeafWeb Washington. This site has quality information for the deaf, deaf-blind, and hard of hearing.