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Closed captioning (CC) and subtitling are both processes of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information. Both are typically used as a transcription of the audio portion of a program as it occurs (either verbatim or in edited form), sometimes including descriptions of non-speech elements. Other uses have been to provide a textual alternative language translation of a presentation's primary audio language that is usually burned-in (or "open") to the video and unselectable. HTML5 defines subtitles as a "transcription or translation of the dialogue ..


Have you ever pondered over what that button ‘CC’ in the corner of your YouTube video player? If you guessed it as ‘captions,’ then you are right. But, if in case you said subtitles, then you must read this article.


Captions are the transcription of dialogue from a media. It is the text that comes below a video, where a speech’s article or some wordings are displayed for viewers to read those interactions from the medium. It adds value to a video display by giving interpretative data. Both verbatim and edited content, after transcription, can be expressed in text format for any audio clipping.