标题: Captioning as a Vocation [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-1-2014 12:46 标题: Captioning as a Vocation Vocations The Broadcast Captioner. Catching Their Every Word; Karla Ray, 39, of Des Moines, Iowa, is a real-time broadcast captioner for Vitac, a closed-caption and subtitling company in Canonsburg, Pa. New York Times, May 31, 2014. www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/jobs/catching-their-every-word.html
My comment:
(a) Until today I assumed the closed captioning was done by computers. After completing this column, I think a captioner is not much different from a court reporter (who types every word spoken in a court room). Indeed the portrayed captioner did some court reporting work,
(b) Des Moines, Iowa
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_Moines,_Iowa
(City of “Des Moines takes its name from Fort Des Moines (1843–46), which was named for the Des Moines River [qv]”)
French English dictionary
moine (noun masculine; from Latin monachus [noun masculine, meaning monk]): "monk"
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moine
(c) VITAC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VITAC
(section 1 History; now “headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania”--18 miles (29 km) southwest of Pittsburgh)
closed captioning
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning
(section 1 Terminology)
(d) “I attended AIB College of Business in Des Moines, graduating in 1995 with an associate degree. ?My major was court reporting.”
AIB College of Business
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIB_College_of_Business
(section 1 History)