Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "Closed Captioning: More Ingenious than You Know" video.

The "French Chef" programme's captioning was not intended for the deaf. It was intended for monolingual English speakers who did not speak or understand French, as the featured chef would be speaking only in French. The captioning was an English translation of what he was saying. Australia has a dedicated network broadcasting programmes from Europe and Asia in the various languages with open captioning for us English speakers to follow the dialogue when spoken in the language of the programme's origin. That network is SBS, Special Broadcasting Service, which also has a network of AM radio stations and perhaps some FM stations broadcasting programmes in various languages other than English.
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@SpongeSebastian I was commenting on the misinterpretation of closed captioning, or even open captions which appear on the screen regardless of selection of any captioning facility. The latter are intended only to translate a foreign language to English. If there's an English-speaking presenter in the programme, then there's no real need for subtitling to translate into English. The Closed Captions have to be called up by the viewer who is hard-of-hearing or deaf.
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@SpongeSebastian As I tried to explain, there are two ways of doing captions, 1) Closed Captions which require call-up on the remote control of the TV set so that deaf or hard-of-hearing people can follow what's been spoken(dialogue or narration), or 2) Open Captions which come up on the bottom of the screen to translate other languages to English, or vice-versa, not requiring any button to call them up.
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@SpongeSebastian Captioning English for English-speakers in anything other than "Captioning For The Deaf" is a pointless exercise, as well as being an insult to the narrator, telling him or her the his/her English is not good enough.
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