# Spoken captioning for the blind **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 15, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoken-captioning-for-the-blind/103695 "2002-04-15T05:27:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoken-captioning-for-the-blind/103695/1 "2002-04-15T05:27:21Z")
Last week on the local news, KCBS Channel 2 in Los Angeles, feature reporter Mike Castalucci did a short bit on spoken captioning for the blind. How would I get in touch with people who are looking for persons willing to speak captions, as in TV shows and movies? I made an audio recording once of Mel Brooks’ _Silent Movie,_ in which I spoke, with the audio cassette recorder running all the way through while I watched the movie on video. And I routinely do this with other stuff I view on TV, making audio recordings so I can play them back in the car, or on the bus with a Walkman, and know, without the picture, what the action is on the screen. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoken-captioning-for-the-blind/103695/2 "2002-04-15T15:26:20Z")
There is something like it, but you might ask these folks: [http://www.captionmax.com/pages/Services/SV\_ad.html](http://www.captionmax.com/pages/Services/SV_ad.html) "Audio Description (sometimes called Video Description) is a new technology for video and television that allows blind and visually impaired people to access a program?s visual content. " ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoken-captioning-for-the-blind/103695/3 "2002-04-16T05:02:25Z")
Thanx 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoken-captioning-for-the-blind/103695/5 "2017-03-03T10:38:04Z")
Where I live [Australian Workers Paradise] we have 2RPH - Radio Print Handicapped. The shows are predominantly people reading the newspaper, news and social magazines out loud. Not just intended for the blind, but anybody with reading difficulties. Also a reasonably good accompaniment to driving. Many of the readers were regular volunteers, and quite a few actors between gigs. Getting a few smartarse young actors reading the gossip column from Who is excellent. Hopefully there ill be some form of local equivalent. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spoken-captioning-for-the-blind/103695/6 "2017-03-03T21:18:02Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#): > > Where I live [Australian Workers Paradise] we have 2RPH - Radio Print Handicapped. The shows are predominantly people reading the newspaper, news and social magazines out loud. Not just intended for the blind, but anybody with reading difficulties. Also a reasonably good accompaniment to driving. > > Many of the readers were regular volunteers, and quite a few actors between gigs. Getting a few smartarse young actors reading the gossip column from Who is excellent. > > Hopefully there ill be some form of local equivalent. There are various services like that in the US, some streaming online: [The WKAR Radio Reading Service](http://wkar.org/schedule/wkar-rrs#stream/0) ([streaming here](http://wkar.org/stream#stream/0)), run by Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, is one example. The magic phrase to Google is “radio reading service”, with or without quotes; the [International Association of Audio Information Services has a locator](http://www.iaais.org/findservices.html) as well, including [a list of streaming radio reading services](http://www.iaais.org/streaming.html).