billcreswell

The church I attend provides live captioning using the excellent steno service provided by  http://tennesseecaptioning.com/ . If you ever wondered how someone like that can keep up, Stan, at http://stanographer.com/  provided a great overview on how stenography works to provide captions for people, who speak way faster than anyone types.

[GUEST POST] Hi, my name is David Brace. My wife and I have been members of Calvary Church for more than 25 years. I have had a life long history of hearing impairment, but in 2002, following surgery to correct a problem with a cochlear implant, I ended up losing the last of what hearing I had. I must admit that I was a bit frightened when I found out that I would not regain any hearing, but it did not take long for God to move in and reassure me that all would be okay. Romans 8:28-30 kept going through my mind. We decided to try learning American Sign Language and attend a church where there was an interpreter for the deaf. A long story made short, after five years of trying, although I had made many friends among the deaf, we just could not receive the level of preaching we had received under Ed Dobson. Finally my wife took my frustration in hand and called Pastor Samra to ask if there was some way I could get his notes ahead of the s...

One of the things I like about captioning movie trailers on DotSUB , is looking find the being translated into other languages. Here is the movie trailer for Predator, captioned in English, and now subtitled in Italian and Japanese.

Calvary Captioning Beginning March 7 Calvary Church will offer *live captioning during the second hour worship service to those desiring assistance understanding the spoken words. If you desire this assistance, personal pre-programmed notebook computers will be available at the Information Desk in the back of the sanctuary. These devices will display the words spoken on our platform live through the internet. You do not need any special training to use the devices; they will be turned on for you and the words will appear as they are broadcast. http://www.calvarygr.com/node/73 *this live captioning is provided by a voice captioner. Voice captioning does not require any typing, and the “record” being taken can be seen almost instantly by others. Wearing a headset and speaking into a microphone, voice captioners simply repeat what is being said in real time, and the transcript appears on a computer screen — punctuation marks and all. [EDIT 2011] This captioning is now ...