We tend to assume that captioning is objective. It’s just copying down. We tend to privilege speech sounds, and there’s just something about speech that sort of makes it seem easier to transcribe. It’s straightforward and objective, but it’s so much more complex than that—especially when you add in non-speech sounds, especially when you consider that everybody has a [...]

We tend to assume that captioning is objective. It’s just copying down. We tend to privilege speech sounds, and there’s just something about speech that sort of makes it seem easier to transcribe. It’s straightforward and objective, but it’s so much more complex than that—especially when you add in non-speech sounds, especially when you consider that everybody has a [...]

We tend to assume that captioning is objective. It’s just&nbsp;copying down. We tend to privilege speech sounds, and there’s just something about&nbsp;speech that sort of makes it seem easier to transcribe. It’s straightforward and objective,&nbsp;but it’s so much more complex than that—especially when you add in non-speech&nbsp;sounds, especially when you consider that everybody has a [...]

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