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Captioning

Displaying on-screen text of spoken dialogue and relevant sounds, in the same language as the audio.

Captioning presents the spoken content of a video as synchronized on-screen text, and, in the case of closed captions, also notes relevant non-speech sounds for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers. Unlike subtitles, captions are typically in the same language as the audio and assume the viewer may not hear it. Accurate captioning depends on clean speech, so isolating a dialogue stem improves results, especially over music or noise.