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Category: Closed Captioning

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Captioning Computer Games

10 Sep 20145 May 2023
This article was originally published in Oct 1998 as a "Gary Robson on Captioning" column for a magazine called Newswaves for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People, which is no longer in…
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Video of my TEDx talk, and a few words about the content

9 May 201431 Jan 2023
Everything always seems to take longer than expected, and when my talk hit YouTube, I was out of town on vacation for a couple of weeks. I'm back now, and…
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Closed Captions, V-Chip, and Other VBI Data

16 Apr 20145 May 2023
I wrote this article in 1999, before the switchover from analog to digital TV. It first appeared in print in the January 2000 issue of Nuts & Volts Magazine. At…
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Behind the scenes: My talk at TEDxBozeman

25 Mar 20145 May 2023
If you don't know what a TED talk is, or you don't know the difference between TED and TEDx, please start by reading my TED post from last November. Okay,…
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TEDx Talk Details. Vague details, but details nonetheless.

14 Mar 201431 Jan 2023
When I first wrote about the talk I'm giving at TEDxBozeman, there wasn't really a lot to say about it. My application had just been accepted. The details weren't nailed…
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Captioning at Disneyland

20 Jan 20145 May 2023
This article was originally published in September 1998 as a “Gary Robson on Captioning” column for a magazine called Newswaves for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People, which is no longer in…
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One for the bucket list: Giving a TED talk

22 Nov 20135 May 2023
My bucket list is an eclectic — and rather lengthy — collection of things. I've crossed some cool stuff off of that list: competing in a rodeo, being profiled in…
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The Start of Online Captioning (realtime text transmission)

1 Jun 20135 May 2023
Closed captioning has been a part of television broadcasting for several decades. For pre-recorded shows, the captions can be added in a studio, carefully typed, proofed, and formatted. In the…
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Captioners: Remembering Your Audience

28 Feb 20125 May 2023
Back in the days before closed captioning was mandated, translated, and legislated, everything was clear and simple: captions were created for deaf and hard-of-hearing (HoH) people. Looking back through the…

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