BB Australia 'Live" Captions

[tedfthis]

“I’m not asking for anything extra, just the same ability to follow the show that hearing viewers already have. Because the episodes are edited from footage recorded the day before, there is no technical reason the captions need to be live and inaccurate.”

Even though the episodes show events from the previous 24 hours, the broadcast is using live captions. The result is captions that are frequently inaccurate, incomplete, or out of sync. For viewers like myself who rely on captions due to hearing loss, this makes the program extremely difficult – realistically, impossible – to follow.

Since the content is not actually live, could the program please be broadcast with pre-prepared captions instead of live captioning? This would make the show accessible to a much larger portion of the audience. Approximately 1 in 6 Australian adults has some degree of hearing loss, so this is not a small group being affected.

If there are scheduling constraints around this, a possible solution could be to use corrected captions for the repeat broadcast later in the evening or the next day.

 

[Brekkie]

I hope you've contacted 10 about this. No excuse not provide proper captioning in this day and age.

 

[dasnico]

This sounds like an issue you need to bring up with 10.

 

[DigitalCorp]

Wait until the YouTube video comes out. The subtitles are mostly accurate, I think. Other than that, reach out to 10

 

[bradnak]

Contact 10 in your local capital city. The address details shouldn't be too hard to find. It sounds like you have made a good argument. It is also a condition of their licence under the Broadcast Services Act 1992 that captions are readable, accurate, and comprehensible. Especially in a show like Big Brother, they would have logs of what they say, at least enough to check in editing.

 

[DigitalCorp]

Contact 10 in your local capital city. The address details shouldn't be too hard to find. It sounds like you have made a good argument. It is also a condition of their licence under the Broadcast Services Act 1992 that captions are readable, accurate, and comprehensible. Especially in a show like Big Brother, they would have logs of what they say, at least enough to check in editing.

But you must take adlibs into account.

 

[Abby]

would not think it to difficult to add many video editing suite has a auto caption feature

Is there a Automatic caption app for TV's?

 

[tedfthis]

I hope you've contacted 10 about this. No excuse not provide proper captioning in this day and age.

Yes, Brekkie. I have sent this same stuff to [email protected]
In this era, we all have a family member, whether it be a sibling, relative, parent or grandparent who is hearing impaired, or deaf. I watch the F1 races on Foxtel, using the Windows 11 captions and they are instant, unbelievably good, for us deaf people. If people dont know about these, go to Settings/Accessibility scroll down to Hearing/Captions and turn them on. I use yellow writing on a blue background. Any problems, contact me.

ABC programmes such as the news and 7 30 which are broadcast 'live' will use these captions OK, but for some reason, they dont work on other channels. We live in an AI age now and captions havent improved in 30 years. Channel 10 to their credit, do fix the captions for their repeat or Encore of The Cheap Seats, so they know it can be done. If anyone wants any info, DM me and I'll do anything I can to help you. To the viewers who have or know someone who is hearing impaired, or deaf, it would be helpful if you all sent Channel 10 an email of dissatisfaction or complaint about the 'live' captions/subtitles. Thats captions at networkten.com.au in case the mods take out URL's. Also, ChatGPT is your friend, ask it how many people over the age of 21 in Australia have a hearing loss.

[email protected]

 

[timmy]

I can understand why, with the HMs often talking over each other the subtitles being generated are probably a dog's breakfast. I hope 10 can pull finger and do better for you and everyone who relies on them.

 

[bradnak]

But you must take adlibs into account.

What I think they should be able to do is keep running captions as live, but in daily show segments that are edited within a reasonable deadline, they should have the relevant captions ready to go. I believe 7 News / Sunrise runs captions like this, switching between prepared captions and live captions as necessary within the same program.

 

[tedfthis]

I would settle for a repeat of BB, 3 hours after the original broadcast, as long as they fix up the subtitles/captions so that they are useful.

 

[Surly]

I would settle for a repeat of BB, 3 hours after the original broadcast, as long as they fix up the subtitles/captions so that they are useful.

don't they usually air repeats of last nights reality TV shows in the daytime slot the next afternoon? they could provide a well-captioned version then.

 

[tedfthis]

don't they usually air repeats of last nights reality TV shows in the daytime slot the next afternoon? they could provide a well-captioned version then.

Most channels repeat popular programmes like Married At First Sight, Masterchef, My Kitchen Rules, The Voice etc, the next day. Channel 10 obviously don’t deem BB to be a popular programme. From tvtonight.com.au the Sunday BB Launch got 774,000 viewers, Monday was 631,000, Tuesday 626,000, Wednesday 590,000. See the pattern? By restricting a decent % of the potential viewing audience who want, or might want to watch, is just shooting themselves in the foot. They repeated dying programmes like The Project and 10 News+ each night, before they killed them.