Blog: Rio 2016 Olympic Games Captioning Coverage
1 Aug 2016
We're busy gearing up for our most exciting captioning event yet! Next week 200 of New Zealand’s best athletes take to the world stage for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
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Blog: Captioning sound effects, non-verbal utterances and music
25 Jul 2016
Dialogue forms the core of what we as viewers hear in a TV programme, but sound goes beyond simply what is spoken in order to tell a story.
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Blog: Able celebrates Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
11 Jul 2016
Last week was Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week), and to celebrate, we took some time to think about how we treat Māori content.
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Blog: A Day in the Life of a Captioner
28 Mar 2016
Captioning at Able involves thinking about how a sound should read. Closed captions keep time with speech, objects making sounds and music playing. What’s on screen shows the viewer a story, and captions show what happens audibly.
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Blog: Able’s new-look website
21 Mar 2016
Able’s website has undergone a recent facelift!
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Blog: Pooch kicks and pistol formations - captioning the Super Bowl
22 Feb 2016
Jim Nantz
pistol formation
Aqib Talib
Luke Kuechly
Beyonce
dual-threat quarterback
Bene Benwikere
tailback
Vince Lombardi Trophy
pooch kick
n-possession game
Levi’s Stadium
Britton Colquitt
That is a small selection of the more than 600 words that the four-strong team of captioners had to learn to be prepared to live caption the Super Bowl 50 on TV ONE a couple of weeks ago.
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Blog: Audio describing The Simpsons
15 Feb 2016
It only took over 26 years and 575 episodes, but on Sunday 14th of February, blind and vision-impaired viewers in NZ had the chance to enjoy an episode of The Simpsons with audio description.
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Blog: Captions now available on Prime!
8 Feb 2016
Antiques, cops, trivia, drama and mystery are coming your way! From 13th February 2016, captions will be available on some programmes on Prime. Antiques Roadshow, Unforgotten, Limitless, University Challenge, Elementary and NCIS: New Orleans are just a few of the shows that will have captioning available on Prime.
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Blog: Silent Leadership Challenge 2015
7 Aug 2015
Wendy, Able's Chief Executive, is taking part in The National Foundation for the Deaf’s Silent Leadership Challenge this year.
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ABLE RESEARCH RESULTS
6 Mar 2015
In late 2014, Able commissioned Colmar Brunton to carry out a research survey to discover the number of users of the captioning and audio description services, learn more about how we can reach them and identify any barriers to using the services we provide.
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