Same language subtitling

Same language subtitling (SLS) refers to the practice of <a href="/facts/Subtitling/9srhQPhl">subtitling</a> programs on TV in the same language as the audio. Initially introduced in the early 1970s as a means to make services available to the hard of hearing, <a href="/facts/Closed_captioning/VLJn5Wou">closed captioning</a> as it became known was standardized for Latin alphabets in the 1976 <a href="/facts/World_System_Teletext/8PknDRLm">World System Teletext</a> agreement. Non-Latin character set services have subsequently been introduced, and are used in <a href="/facts/India/QW4TV4sy">India</a>, and in China to also aid literacy.
In the mid-1980s Pioneer introduced a range of <a href="/facts/Laserdisc/nU4WJhDM">Laserdisc</a> based Karaoke machines, with subtitled Music video playback combined with a <a href="/facts/Karaoke/BAnQITE2">Karaoke</a> PA system, the concept was subsequently adapted for the 1986 multi-format <a href="/facts/Disney_Sing-Along_Songs/cVBSfqYG">Disney Sing-Along Songs</a> series, and later transferred to the PlayStation 2, and subsequent games consoles, and has in parallel been adapted to classroom use of synchronized captioning of <a href="/facts/Musical_theater/KQ2Y35SQ">musical</a> lyrics (or any text with an Audio and/or Video source) as a Repeated Reading activity.
The 1996 <a href="/facts/DVD-Video/V7pyI58m">DVD-Video</a> standard was published with support for up to 32 separate synchronised subtitling streams to be packaged with a video file.

Same language subtitling open-in-new

Same language subtitling