Reading television: The cognitive experience of closed-captioned TV
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10 min readJan 6, 2021
We watch TV with subtitles a lot these days. It’s like reading television.[rustling leaves]
Actually, we watch a lot of closed captioned (CC) TV. In addition to the already-subtitled productions (translating non-English films) we started by turning on closed-captioning for those highly-accented British period pieces or procedurals (where you know…