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Re:Deaf and following the World Cup? We're streaming live ca... by parfe on Friday June 13, 2014 @10:01AM (#7888859)
I don't understand the service. When watching tv with my hearing impaired father I push the CC button.

For the world cup specifically the espn announcers perform so terribly we likely won't even do that and have music playing instead.

Re:Deaf and following the World Cup? We're streaming live ca... by carlob on Friday June 13, 2014 @10:29AM (#7889009)
I remember watching a match during a strike of announcers in Italy, where announcers are supposedly very knowledgeable about soccer.

It was one of my best experiences in soccer ever, beat only by when I started using my radio to listen to a group of comedians commentary.

Re:Deaf and following the World Cup? We're streaming live ca... by roberthahn on Friday June 13, 2014 @11:02AM (#7889160)
Not all tv programmes are captioned. Sometimes pushing the CC button won't work :-)

Then something like this becomes incredibly useful.

EDIT: Also, (and I'm not sure if tveeder supports this) but making this a web service means that even hearing people can search for the resulting transcripts as easily as any other text.