| Speech has always been the preferred mode of | | | | for all television programs to have embedded |
| communication for many years now, with fewer | | | | sub-titles in them, the television companies are |
| people wanting to use the pen as a | | | | now adding them in all the programs. |
| communication tool, their first choice has always | | | | Most television companies do not do it in-house, |
| been to say rather than write, and no wonder | | | | but instead use the services of transcription |
| converting speech-to-text is now a multi-million | | | | companies that convert speech-to-text. The audio |
| dollar industry. | | | | of the entire program is converted into text and |
| The doctors at the clinic or the hospital no longer | | | | captioning software inserts the text into the |
| have enough time to write patients medical | | | | programs. The text or the sub-titles are |
| record, they instead choose to dictate it into a | | | | synchronized accurately, at the bottom of the |
| digital voice recorder for medical transcribers to | | | | screen, so that it appears in tandem with what is |
| convert their speech into text, and thanks to their | | | | being spoken by the characters in the television |
| lack of time, the medical transcription process is | | | | program. |
| providing employment opportunities to not only | | | | The doctors and the television companies are not |
| people in the United States, but to people living in | | | | the only ones that choose to hire transcribers, the |
| India or Philippines. | | | | universities and students also solicit the services |
| Similarly the television production companies for | | | | of transcribers for documenting academic |
| many years now have entertained millions and | | | | research or typing dissertations for graduating |
| millions of people, but thousands of people that | | | | students, including thesis for post-graduates taking |
| are hearing impaired were unable to comprehend | | | | PhDs. Therefore people with the skill of converting |
| the programs because sub-titles were not added | | | | speech-into-text are working overtime, either out |
| to the television programs, only after the US | | | | of their homes or in offices that hire them for |
| government took the step to make it mandatory | | | | medical or media transcriptions. |