Subtitle (captioning)

Example of a television program with subtitles

Subtitles are text-like versions of the dialog in movies.^[1] Subtitles are also used in television programmes and video games. The text is usually displayed at the bottom of the screen. Subtitles can also be a form of written translation of a dialog in an unfamiliar language, or a written text version of the spoken words in the same language, with or without added information to help watchers who are not able to hear or people who cannot understand the spoken dialogue.

Subtitle (captioning) Media

1960s film Charade with actresses Audrey Hepburn and Dominique Minot conversing subtitled in English. Quotation dashes are used to differentiate speakers.
The "CC in a TV" symbol Jack Foley created, while senior graphic designer at Boston public broadcaster WGBH that invented captioning for television, is public domain so that anyone who captions TV programs can use it.
Example of speaker ID in SDH (voices are off-screen)
Example of non-speech information in SDH (source is off-screen)
Example of non-speech information in SDH (two sources: off-screen and on-screen)
Example of music description in SDH
Example of lyrics transcription in SDH

References

↑ Downey, John. (2008). Closed captioning: subtitling, stenography, and the digital convergence of text with television, pp. 17-18.

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[1] Downey, John. (2008). Closed captioning: subtitling, stenography, and the digital convergence of text with television, pp. 17-18.

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