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Frank Cannon

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Mon Oct-02-06 02:46 PM
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10. Live shows are typically captioned by stenographers...

using software that translates their stenography keystrokes into English. This doesn't work some of the time, often resulting in the hilarious errors that we see.

Taped (or filmed) shows are captioned by people who typically have access to scripts, writers, producers, etc., ahead of airing, also with some lead time so that they can clean up any discrepancies beforehand.

Don't ask me how I know all this, but I do.

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