What is the difference between captioning and subtitling?
Captioning not only captures the spoken dialogue, but it also conveys various sound effects (i.e., infant crying, knocking on door, phone ringing, screaming, and the like) in a text format, whereas subtitling only captures the spoken conversation. However, due to the popularity of DVDs, there are “subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing” (SDH) that essentially function the same way as captioning does.
