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Originally posted by amonkie
It is expensive to try and caption stuff... I had a friend who attempted to make a closed captioned version of southpark for me, and it literally took him a couple days to make the first minute of dialogue, because all the timing is based off the beginning of the show or broadcast.
The federal grants are a way for companies to get the government to help alleviate the costs of the captioning, but there are many more entities than are dollars available to give out.
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people who caption things don't use a normal keyboard, they don't use the normal video playback systems that most people have in their homes.
while it is expensive to do initially getting all the equipment etc, it actually doesn't cost that much to have a closed caption person add it offline vs. realtime which can be a bit more expensive but truly NOT cost prohibitive.
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