A professional who operates computerized captioning system to provide $T3captions$T1 for movies or taped television productions for hearing-impaired viewers, and to provide captions (subtitles) in English or foreign language. Responsibilities include:

• Listens to dialogue of production and writes caption phrases for dialogue.
• Watches production and reviews captions simultaneously to determine which caption phrases to leave in, which to revise, and where captions should be placed on screen.
• Enters commands to edit and place captions, and to synchronize captions with dialogue.
• May write captions to describe music and background noises.
• May discuss captions with director, motion picture , director, television , producer , or producer .
• May translate foreign language dialogue into English language captions, or translate English dialogue into foreign language captions.
• May oversee encoding of captions to master tape of television production.