- Title
- Parameters in television captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing adults: effects of caption rate versus text reduction on comprehension
- Creator
- Burnham, Denis; Leigh, Greg; Noble, William; Jones, Caroline; Tyler, Michael; Grebennikov, Leonid; Varley, Alex
- Relation
- Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education Vol. 13, Issue 3, p. 391-404
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enn003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- 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 were manipulated independently in 2 experiments to assess any differential effects and possible benefits for comprehension by deaf and hard-of-hearing adults. Volunteers for the study included adults with a range of reading levels, self-reported hearing status, and different communication and language preferences. Results indicate that caption rate (at 130, 180, 230 words per minute) and text reduction (at 84%, 92%, and 100% original text) have different effects for different adult users, depending on hearing status, age, and reading level. In particular, reading level emerges as a dominant factor: more proficient readers show better comprehension than poor readers and are better able to benefit from caption rate and, to some extent, text reduction modifications.
- Subject
- captioning; deaf and hard-of-hearing adults; caption rate; text reduction; comprehension
- Identifier
- uon:5605
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43506
- Identifier
- ISSN:1081-4159
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