Frequently Asked Question

Captioning Criteria

• I would remove the ahs and umms...as the machine-generated captions generally do that.

• If there's more than one speaker, the speaker's name needs to be identified before each person's text.

• The captions can include a parenthetical aside that notes there's crosstalk in the background. This is an important component of audio description.

• Captions should be dramatically correct, and that can be tricky since we talk differently from how we write. So, I would use best judgment there

Dialogue: speakers must always be captioned. Identify speakers and tones when they cannot be inferred; if they are talking over each other and there is no clear dominant speaker, you put in parenthesis that multiple people are speaking at once. b. Caption verbal/oral bridges (e.g. “um” and “uh”) only if they hold value (this is a rare thing). c. Add proper grammar to run on sentences to help convey meaning.