Job description

Responsible for writing captions for movies or television for hearing-impaired viewers or those watching TV on mute. Watches show and makes quick decisions to determine which captions will be included, edited, or left out.

Basic Responsibilities:

• Write captions for TV shows or movies.
• Use stenotype equipment connected to a computer with special software to produce almost immediate captions of the words.
• Provide captions (subtitles) in English or foreign language.
• Capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information.
• Respond to requests during court sessions to read portions of the proceedings already recorded.
• Dictate dialogue quickly and efficiently, utilizing proper spelling and grammar.
• Record symbols on computer storage media and use computer-aided transcription to translate and display them as text.
• Determine which caption phrases to revise or leave out.
• Improvise if necessary and write captions to describe music and background noises.
• Translate foreign language dialogue into English language captions.
• Translate English dialogue into foreign language captions.
• Enter commands to synchronize captions with dialogue.
• Operate computerized captioning system.
• Preside over encoding of captions to master tape of television production.
• Edit out profanities for viewing audience.

Job Types: Contract, Temporary

Pay: $20.00 per hour

Schedule:

• On call
• Self-determined schedule

Experience:

• Marketing: 1 year (Preferred)
• Copywriting: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote

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