Older shows with closed captioning tend to be worse offenders than modern shows with variable subtitles.
MASH, in particular, has a lot of really fast dialog. I'm sure early captioners felt like they were doing a service trying to make it readable on the low-rez captioning gear of the time.
MASH, in particular, has a lot of really fast dialog. I'm sure early captioners felt like they were doing a service trying to make it readable on the low-rez captioning gear of the time.
September 19, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Older shows with closed captioning tend to be worse offenders than modern shows with variable subtitles.
MASH, in particular, has a lot of really fast dialog. I'm sure early captioners felt like they were doing a service trying to make it readable on the low-rez captioning gear of the time.
MASH, in particular, has a lot of really fast dialog. I'm sure early captioners felt like they were doing a service trying to make it readable on the low-rez captioning gear of the time.
Our seat at #TIFF. Welcome to captioning mission control! 5 simultaneous events. 5 ScribeWire captioners. Monitoring every stage, stream, and schedule to keep it all coordinated.
Proud to play our part in TIFF’s commitment to accessibility, working to make the festival accessible to everyone.
Proud to play our part in TIFF’s commitment to accessibility, working to make the festival accessible to everyone.
September 18, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Our seat at #TIFF. Welcome to captioning mission control! 5 simultaneous events. 5 ScribeWire captioners. Monitoring every stage, stream, and schedule to keep it all coordinated.
Proud to play our part in TIFF’s commitment to accessibility, working to make the festival accessible to everyone.
Proud to play our part in TIFF’s commitment to accessibility, working to make the festival accessible to everyone.
Is there a reason you do not have ASL interpreters and/or human captioners on your speeches?
Auto-generated captions are often full of errors.
Captions are used not only by hearing impaired people, but also people who have reading difficulties, those whose 1st language is not English, & others. +
Auto-generated captions are often full of errors.
Captions are used not only by hearing impaired people, but also people who have reading difficulties, those whose 1st language is not English, & others. +
September 14, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Is there a reason you do not have ASL interpreters and/or human captioners on your speeches?
Auto-generated captions are often full of errors.
Captions are used not only by hearing impaired people, but also people who have reading difficulties, those whose 1st language is not English, & others. +
Auto-generated captions are often full of errors.
Captions are used not only by hearing impaired people, but also people who have reading difficulties, those whose 1st language is not English, & others. +
Automatic captions are ableist af, hire captioners, you bastards.
(The error rate on automatic captioning is OBSCENE.)
(The error rate on automatic captioning is OBSCENE.)
September 12, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Automatic captions are ableist af, hire captioners, you bastards.
(The error rate on automatic captioning is OBSCENE.)
(The error rate on automatic captioning is OBSCENE.)
The BET is going to try to extend the captioners for the livestream from 8 to 9 pm because they recognize the meeting is gonna go late. Mayor has another event to get to, so he may have to leave and come back.
September 9, 2026 at 11:43 PM
The BET is going to try to extend the captioners for the livestream from 8 to 9 pm because they recognize the meeting is gonna go late. Mayor has another event to get to, so he may have to leave and come back.
(if anyone is curious the actual warranted complaint was about dropout's captioning, which is genuinely Not Great for people who need them when the captioners want to make a joke! very weird to see someone say they think drama videos abt the collapse of dropout is inevitable and they can't wait!)
September 9, 2026 at 12:57 AM
(if anyone is curious the actual warranted complaint was about dropout's captioning, which is genuinely Not Great for people who need them when the captioners want to make a joke! very weird to see someone say they think drama videos abt the collapse of dropout is inevitable and they can't wait!)
I would look at the rates that captioners charge!
September 8, 2026 at 7:58 AM
I would look at the rates that captioners charge!
SimLoss trains image captioners to get fine detail in a single pass
A new training objective called SimLoss lets a vision-language model produce detailed image captions in one pass, matching the accuracy of slow multi-stage pipelines while running roughly 20 times faster.
A new training objective called SimLoss lets a vision-language model produce detailed image captions in one pass, matching the accuracy of slow multi-stage pipelines while running roughly 20 times faster.
SimLoss trains image captioners to get fine detail in a single pass
A new training objective called SimLoss lets a vision-language model produce detailed image captions in one pass, matching the accuracy of slow multi-stage pipelines while running roughly 20 times faster.
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September 6, 2026 at 9:55 AM
SimLoss trains image captioners to get fine detail in a single pass
A new training objective called SimLoss lets a vision-language model produce detailed image captions in one pass, matching the accuracy of slow multi-stage pipelines while running roughly 20 times faster.
A new training objective called SimLoss lets a vision-language model produce detailed image captions in one pass, matching the accuracy of slow multi-stage pipelines while running roughly 20 times faster.
Your captioners are fire, we love having the captions on during our rewatches.
September 6, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Your captioners are fire, we love having the captions on during our rewatches.
Hey, @criticalrole.bsky.social, maybe take a page from this book? Sending your captioners a list of fantasy proper nouns spelled correctly would also be nice. "Riesenürtel" without a "g" is my favorite. It's been months, and it's still wrong in every episode.
September 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Hey, @criticalrole.bsky.social, maybe take a page from this book? Sending your captioners a list of fantasy proper nouns spelled correctly would also be nice. "Riesenürtel" without a "g" is my favorite. It's been months, and it's still wrong in every episode.
On the other hand, there are times where the captioners are wrong unfortunately.. but these bits are funny nonetheless.
September 5, 2026 at 2:34 PM
On the other hand, there are times where the captioners are wrong unfortunately.. but these bits are funny nonetheless.
Our captioners always go the extra mile to ensure hyper-accuracy 💫
September 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Our captioners always go the extra mile to ensure hyper-accuracy 💫
It's doubly Hank's fault because saying "those Chili's" is wild. Like you wouldn't say "those Burger King". Imo making the captioners go through that should be what earns him a Controversies section in his Wikipedia /j
August 31, 2026 at 6:07 PM
It's doubly Hank's fault because saying "those Chili's" is wild. Like you wouldn't say "those Burger King". Imo making the captioners go through that should be what earns him a Controversies section in his Wikipedia /j
Legal captioners: speed gets noticed, but specialization builds credibility. Proceeding experience, terminology fluency, and reliability help make the value behind the work visible on Jusvox. #LegalCaptioning
#careergrowth #legalcaptioners #captioningspecialization
#careergrowth #legalcaptioners #captioningspecialization
August 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Legal captioners: speed gets noticed, but specialization builds credibility. Proceeding experience, terminology fluency, and reliability help make the value behind the work visible on Jusvox. #LegalCaptioning
#careergrowth #legalcaptioners #captioningspecialization
#careergrowth #legalcaptioners #captioningspecialization
I also am not sure you have any idea how long professional art takes to create in terms of concept to finished product. I've watched firsthand as AI replaced human workers (captioners) with a public-facing inferior product. But it was so much cheaper, no one cared.
August 13, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I also am not sure you have any idea how long professional art takes to create in terms of concept to finished product. I've watched firsthand as AI replaced human workers (captioners) with a public-facing inferior product. But it was so much cheaper, no one cared.
wait do you get the file pre-bleeped or do the captioners bleep them......I'm assuming pre-bleeped </3
August 12, 2026 at 2:58 PM
wait do you get the file pre-bleeped or do the captioners bleep them......I'm assuming pre-bleeped </3
WordPress Accessibility Day 2026 is seeking volunteers for its October 7–8 online event, with applications open for emcees, session moderators, video reviewers, captioners, and translators
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August 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
WordPress Accessibility Day 2026 is seeking volunteers for its October 7–8 online event, with applications open for emcees, session moderators, video reviewers, captioners, and translators
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Captioners: certification is a milestone, not the finish line. Build your education around legal terminology, speaker IDs, objections, exhibits, and realtime clarity.
#captioners #legalcaptioning #certification
#captioners #legalcaptioning #certification
August 9, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Captioners: certification is a milestone, not the finish line. Build your education around legal terminology, speaker IDs, objections, exhibits, and realtime clarity.
#captioners #legalcaptioning #certification
#captioners #legalcaptioning #certification
Dear @netflix.com could you pls tell your captioners that 'Dottoressa' in Italian doesn't translate into Ms or Madame in English, but Doctor / Dr.
This is even more frustrating whilst watching a #feminist show like #LidiaPoet 🙄
Please show some respect and update the English captions. Thanks!
This is even more frustrating whilst watching a #feminist show like #LidiaPoet 🙄
Please show some respect and update the English captions. Thanks!
August 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Dear @netflix.com could you pls tell your captioners that 'Dottoressa' in Italian doesn't translate into Ms or Madame in English, but Doctor / Dr.
This is even more frustrating whilst watching a #feminist show like #LidiaPoet 🙄
Please show some respect and update the English captions. Thanks!
This is even more frustrating whilst watching a #feminist show like #LidiaPoet 🙄
Please show some respect and update the English captions. Thanks!
Captioning time is not just session time. Prep, realtime focus, cleanup, dictionary maintenance, and recovery are one professional workload for legal captioners. #Jusvox
#legalcaptioning #captioners #worklifebalance
#legalcaptioning #captioners #worklifebalance
August 4, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Captioning time is not just session time. Prep, realtime focus, cleanup, dictionary maintenance, and recovery are one professional workload for legal captioners. #Jusvox
#legalcaptioning #captioners #worklifebalance
#legalcaptioning #captioners #worklifebalance
"Krone is such an ugly word..."
Especially because it's spelled "crone", you closed captioners.
#svengoolie
Especially because it's spelled "crone", you closed captioners.
#svengoolie
August 2, 2026 at 1:06 AM
"Krone is such an ugly word..."
Especially because it's spelled "crone", you closed captioners.
#svengoolie
Especially because it's spelled "crone", you closed captioners.
#svengoolie
What's funny too is that it didn't seem this difficult when I'd be offering community care by setting up live streams with live captioners for others.
Whycome things become a bagillion times harder when you're doing something for yourself. 🤣🤣
Whycome things become a bagillion times harder when you're doing something for yourself. 🤣🤣
July 31, 2026 at 4:39 PM
What's funny too is that it didn't seem this difficult when I'd be offering community care by setting up live streams with live captioners for others.
Whycome things become a bagillion times harder when you're doing something for yourself. 🤣🤣
Whycome things become a bagillion times harder when you're doing something for yourself. 🤣🤣
Every day I missed whoever the loyal closed captioners were that were uploading those captions to watchseries. We truly lost a gem when that site went down. We miss you closed captioners.
July 30, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Every day I missed whoever the loyal closed captioners were that were uploading those captions to watchseries. We truly lost a gem when that site went down. We miss you closed captioners.
Sending out a HUGE thank you to everyone who helped make #ADASymposium2026 in Phoenix a successful event! We're grateful for each and every one of you! Stay tuned for announcements about next year's conference
July 28, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Sending out a HUGE thank you to everyone who helped make #ADASymposium2026 in Phoenix a successful event! We're grateful for each and every one of you! Stay tuned for announcements about next year's conference
bring back human captioners for TV this fuckin thing just wrote "She-Angela" for Shangela gurl
July 28, 2026 at 4:10 PM
bring back human captioners for TV this fuckin thing just wrote "She-Angela" for Shangela gurl