Posted by nobody special on 01/04/06 04:07

While most people talk about captioning being for the benefit of the
deaf community, there is another reason driving this as well. Once your
videos all have a CC track, they become keyword-searchable to large
video clip databases. This is already being done for news networks and
specialty programming services on a smaller scale, but it will only
expand. Some day not too far off, a person at their home PC will
google 'Sermons, First Timothy, video', and be able to find video of
your pastor's speaking on that scripture, as well as many others. He
would even be able to break it down by denomination and other
variables. That sermon might someday, potentially be watched worldwide,
in far-flung places, by people you'll never meet.

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