Digital Radio - Sub-Titles?

Sgeir

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As Madame Sgeir and I huddled round the range listening to the BBC Home Service, I am afraid that, what with the lowing of the cattle and the wind howling down the lum, we missed a lot of tonight's episode of the the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Neither of us being quite 20/20 in the aural department, we wondered why we cannot watch sub-titles if we listened to the wireless on the telly (via the digibox). After all, isn't this what DSC is all about?
 
Madame Sgeir occasionally plays with her i-Pod, but think they'd be too wee to read anything.

Look at it this way: in theory I can
<ul type="square"> get my electricity from the gas company
gas from the leccy board
foreign currency from the Post Office
telecom from Tesco
directory enquiries from any Tom Dick or Harry
wireless off the telly [/list]
so why can't I get sub-titles off the wireless?
 
Did ye not hear it? - No; 'twas but the wind,
Or the cows rattling o'er the stony street;
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

I listened to it first time round, when my hearing was a lot better ( and it's a long way for the Home Service to reach Stirling, uphill)
 
But would you (and SHMBO) be prepared to pay the additional cost of transcribing all the programmes and turning that into sub-titles. I suspect that the number of people requiring subtitles on radio is - to put it mildly - small ...... so the cost would be unrealistic.
But .... ventriloquism on radio was hugely popular in the 1950's so maybe its worth further investigation.
 
John - in Stirling, our cows don't rattle. Well, not unless they're very old.

But hark!—that heavy sound breaks in once more,
As if the clouds its echo would repeat;
And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before!
Arm! Arm! it is—it is—the cannon’s opening roar!

Oh, and by the way, I don't think it's a repeat, but a new sequel which, in the way of things quantum mechanical, may be a prequel. Who knows?

David, what can I say? There's always someone who can put a damper on things. But you're right, Educating Archie was a stroke of pure genius! Perhaps they could make radio programmes with these guys who paint themselves in silver and do statue impressions in main streets and town squares.

But as a fully paid license payer who doesn't want digital shopping channels, wouldn't wireless sub-titles be a boon for those who are hard of hearing? Should BBC budgets come before social responsibility?

Harrumph!


PS: You didn't do the scripts for ITMA, did you?
 
This 20/20 stuff in the aural department... I have a piece of video of you undertaking some form of semi-naked pilates in Avilions cockpit and having had a good look you barely make 20/20 in the visual department either
 
Now in my day we got the subtitles off the telex machine. They came out on a yellow strip of paper with five perforations going accross the paper we had to read them with our fingers ...a bit like braile.
People have got it easy nowdays.
 
Would it necessarily be that expensive with voice recognition software ? After all I understand that one of the political parties (can't remember maybe LibDem) wants to give this s/ware to PC Plod so he has to spend less time typing up his reports. Which would be more socially useful ? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
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As Madame Sgeir and I huddled round the range listening to the BBC Home Service, I am afraid that, what with the lowing of the cattle and the wind howling down the lum, we missed a lot of tonight's episode of the the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Neither of us being quite 20/20 in the aural department, we wondered why we cannot watch sub-titles if we listened to the wireless on the telly (via the digibox). After all, isn't this what DSC is all about?

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If you want to read it why not buy the book?! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
I agree with you about HitchHikers. It really was brilliant on the radio! One of those times when the copy ends up being better than the original.
I was in Waterstones yesterday and they had two different versions on CD(both on special). I was very tempted to get one but I couldn't remember which was the version. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
I just find it difficult to imagine H2G2 in subtitles........ f'rexample.... how on earth do you cover the last but one epsiode where the guide tries different tones of voice to see which ones Random could hear.... hilarious stuff, and another example of Douglas Adams' brilliance... but just can't see it in subtitles!

My favourite all time piece of Adams humour.... the planet that uses dried leaves as currency... but sadly suffers massive inflation each autumn /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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Would it necessarily be that expensive with voice recognition software ? After all I understand that one of the political parties (can't remember maybe LibDem) wants to give this s/ware to PC Plod so he has to spend less time typing up his reports. Which would be more socially useful ? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

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Plod would find it useful.

Plod says "I was planting some drugs on this villain" would print out as "On searching the suspect we discovered a suspicious substance"

Plod says "I punched him in the face" and it reads "He fell onto the floor" /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
Was it? Oh well.....................

I'm sure that Douglas Adams would have been happy to be told that the copy was produced before the original....I reckon he would have done it like that if he could /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
Thanks for the Memory

Brendan, the reference was to the book of the original radio series, that Book being Peter Jones. The current one is William Franklin, a perfectly acceptable and commendable Book.

The original series appeared totally unannounced after (or was it before?) Hubert Gregg's Thanks For The Memory. Or was that on a different night? Oh dear...
Anyway, you'll know, Brendan.

Once we have sub-titles on the wireless, remember where you read about it first. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
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