Parameters in Television Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults: Effects of Caption Rate Versus Text Reduction on Comprehension

Burnham, Denis; Leigh, Greg; Noble, William; Jones, Caroline; D. Tyler, Michael; Grebennikov, Leonid; Varley, Ann

doi:10.1093/deafed/enn003

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Parameters in Television Captioning for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Adults: Effects of Caption Rate Versus Text Reduction on Comprehension

Published in The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education • Mar 27, 2008

Authors:

Denis Burnham

Greg Leigh

William Noble

Abstract

Caption rate and text reduction are factors that appear to affect the comprehension of captions by people who are deaf or hard of hearing. These 2 factors are confounded in everyday captioning; rate (in words per minute) is slowed by text reduction. In this study, caption rate and text reduction wer...

Subject

Closed captioning

Comprehension

Psychology

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