Years ago prompter text was indeed used for closed captioning, but those computer scripting “notes” you refer to were formatted to be invisible to what was being sent to captioning. This was back in the early days of NRCS systems, such as Basys.
Using prompter for closed captioning doesn't meet the Commission' requirements for captioning in news programming. The main reason is there are too many potentially public-facing important things said during a newscast that isn't in the script. Weather is a prime example. Weather folks don't use prompter, neither do street reporters reporting from the field All that dialog would be lost without live-human, or speech recognition captioning.
We have a captioning service that has folks captioning newscasts from all over the world. They dial into a listen line coupler, and caption from the audio only.
Undoubtedly, closed captioning is a complicated task for even the fastest of humans as well as their computer counterparts, but for a show like 20/20, there really isn't a live element. You should be able to compile all the segments a few days early, and as the anchor rehearses her lines, then you can throw together a transcript that would be more accurate.
I wonder how the AI percieved this!If they're using teleprompter, they aren't compliant with the rules.
That's the point. There's probably a few stations out there not doing it by the book.
The ironic thing when you think about it; is automated/Voice Recognition closed captioning systems aren't that expensive. A station can purchase a really good one for less than ten grand. Not only would the station(s) be compliant, better serve the disabled community, but once set up, you can pretty much forget about it.
