I don’t particularly have any difficulty hearing. In fact, at my last physical, I was told that my hearing is surprisingly good for my age. That isn’t always a benefit. Sometimes I hear my children using language and talking about topics I would rather not hear from my 13- and 15-year-old. When I’m trying to get to sleep tonight and every little billow of the wind outside assaults my ears, I wish I was able to turn the noise down a notch or two. But when I’m watching any type of video, that’s a different matter altogether.
I’m not the only one who has difficulty hearing the dialogue in movies, YouTube videos, and pretty much any type of digital video. Granted, it’s not as much of an issue in the movie theatre, but I’ve not been to one of those in four years now. At home, hearing what’s on the television or streaming on my computer can be extremely difficult.
The solution, it would seem, is turning on Closed Caption. I use captions so often that I get a bit upset when I come across a video that doesn’t happen. Even when I’m home alone and turn the volume up as much as I wish, I still use closed captions because there’s too much that I miss without them.
Turns out, using closed captions is a thing a lot of people do now. Chances are, in fact, that you’re one of those people. I found this story from CBS Sunday Morning extremely interesting.
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