“I was born in a Deaf family. My parents are Deaf. My sister is Deaf.” This was the opening to Thibault Duchemin’s initial investor pitch for his company Ava, a real-time captioning product. Ava was ...

No, AI is not taking over our beloved captions quite yet. It’s hard enough to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Imagine spelling every word given to every contestant. That was Annah Koenig ...

Live captioning (also commonly referred to as real-time captioning or CART) provides a synchronous translation of spoken English into written English text. The translated text is displayed on a screen ...

If you are creating and posting audiovisual content on a social media platform(s), adding captioning will make your content more accessible to your audience. Please visit Transcripts and Captions to ...

TikTok's auto-generated captions let users add and edit accessible captioning to their own videos. Credit: Filip Radwanski/Getty Images For accessibility-minded TikTok creators, gone are the days of ...

Closed captions are crucial for the viewing experience of lots of people: anyone who watched Game of Thrones and wanted to know what was going on, every person who likes those out of context Twitter ...

Although the FCC established rules for the carriage of closed captioning quite some time ago, the process of generating, encoding and transmitting captions has had to adapt to the evolution of digital ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Microsoft has ...

Regular readers of this column know a number of the stories that appear in this space reflect the convergence of technology, disability, and Hollywood. To name just two examples, the last few weeks ...

NBC News (including The TODAY Show, NBC Nightly News) is pleased to offer closed captioning across a wide variety of its programming that it makes available on television and online. To report an ...

The worldwide shift to virtual workplaces has been a blessing and a curse to people with hearing impairments. Having office chatter occur in text rather than speech is more accessible, but virtual ...