Subtitle Narration for ASL Speaker - humorous
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
She signs, I think a lot about closed captions. Those little lines of text below me right now, she points downward as a non hearing person, I rely on them and here's a not so well kept secret about closed captions. They suck. Captioning dialogue is one thing but captioning sound is another. For example, if music starts to play, the captions might go something like music one word. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll get violin music, which is better but still not enough. It doesn't tell me anything about what that sound is made of how it moves its personality, the more description, the better. So for instance, mournful violin music or mournful violin music that sounds like crying alone in an empty bar or better yet mournful violin music that sounds like crying alone in an empty bar. In 19 twenties, Paris, you're wearing a very tiny but fashionable hat that you tip to the bartender as you order 1/4 Martini music stops. That tells me something. I place a lot of trust in the people who write captions, but those people have a different relationship with sound and the world than I do. So I started to wonder, what would it look like if I wrote the captions myself? The sound of anticipation intensifies. Let me show you.