closed captioning

English

Noun

closed captioning (uncountable)

  1. The display of text on a television or video screen, usually a transcription of the audio portion of a program as it occurs (either verbatim or in edited form), most frequently used by the deaf and language learners. Closed captions are encoded invisibly, and displayed by a decoder.
  • open captioning
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