Joe Hourcle
> If you watch most news programs these days, they seem to use some
> sort of automatic closed captioning, as it's just awful.  [...]

They're done by having someone speaking into a voice-recognition
system tuned to their voice while they're watching and listening to
the broadcast.  A sort of simultaneous interpreting but to/from almost
the same language.  Read more about it at
http://m.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jan/16/pigs-love-to-eat-willies
by "World's sexiest deaf guy" http://charlieswinbourne.com/

Hope that informs,
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