The May 31 New York Times interviewed captioner Karla Ray, RMR, CRR, CBC, as part of its Vocations column, a recurring feature that asks people about their jobs. Ray, who lives in Des Moines, Iowa, works as a realtime broadcast captioner for Vitac.
“Captioning is a bit like a musician playing ‘Flight of the Bumblebee,’” Ray told the Times. “Just as that person has to play each note accurately and extremely fast to get it right, we need to capture every word and, when possible, music lyrics or background sounds — at very high speeds.”
