The Benefits of Captioning to ALL Audiences
Who Benefits from Live Real-time CART & Captioning?
Captioning can benefit anyone who has difficulty hearing, understanding, or following spoken communication. This includes :
* People who are deaf or hard of hearing
* Veterans
* Older adults
* Children
* Individuals who have experienced years of exposure to loud noise, including workers in industries such as construction, ironworking, electrical work, manufacturing and other noisy occupations.
Captioning can also benefit people in environments where there is:
* Background noise,
* Distance from a speaker
* Accents
* Technical terminology
* Poor acoustics that make spoken communication difficult to follow.
Why Real-time CART Captioning?
What is the Difference Between Human-Generated and Automated Captions?
RECALL:
There have been many studies that have found that people recall information better after seeing and hearing it than hearing alone. As captions are visual aids of the spoken word, they can certainly improve memory recall!
LEARNING:
Children may also find benefit in using captions to aid their reading comprehension, Similarly, in an educational setting, students are greatly assisted in understanding and retaining content. Individuals for whom English is their second language (ESL) may also find captions helpful with spelling and pronunciation.
LANGUAGE:
Wherever there is difficult language, poor audio or complicated information, captions can clarify the content for the audience.
Automated captions use speech-recognition technology to convert speech into text.
Human-generated captions are provided by a trained human captioning professional in real time.
For situations where accurate and reliable communication access is important, professional CART captioning can provide greater control over speaker identification, specialized terminology, context, punctuation and readability.
Statistics on Hearing Loss and Captioning
The CDC reports that 15.7% of U.S. adults—about 1 in 6—had some difficulty hearing
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) estimates that approximately 37.5 million U.S. adults report some degree of hearing loss.
For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, captions can provide essential access to spoken communication.
NIDCD notes that captions allow viewers to follow dialogue and other important audio information through text.
Whether captioning is needed for one person or an entire audience, K4U helps make spoken communication clear, accessible and inclusive...one word at a time.