Sentence examples for captioning from inspiring English sources
The word 'captioning' is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to the process of creating captions, which are text versions of the dialogue and important sounds in a video or audio recording. You can use 'captioning' to describe the act of adding subtitles to a movie or TV show, or to describe the process of providing written descriptions for images or videos for accessibility purposes. Example: "The movie was available with closed captioning for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing."
verb
Present participle of caption
Genpact, for example, in March announced a joint venture with NDTV, a television channel, to offer services such as digitisation, video-editing and captioning.
Olivia Sturgiss from New South Wales, Australia supposedly looks so much like Swift that she has amassed almost 20,000 followers on Instagram, regularly captioning her photos #noitsliv to reassure the singer's fans.
The group started sending each other photos of themselves pulling faces, captioning them #uglygirlsclub.
Captioning the image of a uniformed Fusilier Rigby: 'Lest we forget', the Facebook post soon attracted comments from users telling the group that his family had opposed the move, according to the Huffington Post.
The young man posted a photo of the receipt on Facebook, captioning it: "Went out in Manchester, woke up in London.
Schuler has posted a photo from his and Celeste's wedding, captioning it: "I found my partner, my best friend, my great love via a simple glitch in social media.
When he began his studies at Cambridge, he had spoken almost no English, so Rosenberg informed his professors that he had recently undergone surgery on his vocal cords, and could not yet talk in class; in the meantime, he bought a television and watched it each night with closed-captioning until, after three months, he spoke with confidence.
(I turned on the closed-captioning on my TV to see how the sounds were described: "airy groaning").
The library also plans to offer more events dedicated to the deaf, like a series of talks with deaf authors, and to provide more interpreting and closed-captioning at other events.
It is far more common for items designed for disabled people to be adapted for general use, like closed-captioning on televisions in gyms or GPS devices in cars that announce directions.
Ken Harrenstien, a software engineer at YouTube and Google, who is deaf and who is heading the captions project, said the auto-captioning can be translated into more than 50 languages.
