Definitions
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- noun A technology that adds text
captions to a video that describes speech and sound. Usually used to assist thehearing-impaired .
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Examples
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It's all done by applying the close-captioning process familiar to TV viewers.
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Google Video was first launched in 2005 as a search service for television content because TV close-captioning made search possible and user-generated video had yet to take off.
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We had to call the engineer to get the close-captioning lettering off the TV screen and fix our air-conditioning unit, which we couldn't adjust.
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Good quality slides and video, with close-captioning.
A Step Up for Bipolar Disorders Sandra K 2007
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Good quality slides and video, with close-captioning.
Archive 2007-11-01 Sandra K 2007
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The Bush Dept of Education stops close-captioning funding to a number of "inappropriate" shows, including Scooby-Doo, Law & Order, Bewtiched, and a host of others.
February 12th, 2004 2004
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While doing cardio at the gym today, pretty intensely so I couldn't follow the close-captioning as closely as I would have liked, I saw a CNN segment on unrepentant terrorist William Ayers whom the "news" network identified as a '60s radical.
GayPatriot 2008
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I had to look up to the television monitors to read the close-captioning.
GayPatriot 2008
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I had to look up to the television monitors to read the close-captioning.
GayPatriot 2008
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It happened to me Sunday at the gym as I gazed at the close-captioning on the screen above me, which was tuned into PBS, which was running a older documentary titled
WordPress.com News 2008
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