Freeview radio channels with subtitles?

goshmon

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The major Freeview TV channels come with subtitling, but I haven't found any of the Freeview RADIO channels with subtitling.
Does anyone know of such a thing? (There are supposed to be a lot of good radio programmes, but not for thre deaf).
 
Not available... at least not yet Radio for deaf people? | Sense and I don't know if there will be money in the broadcasters budgets to do it - unless told to by Government / Ofcom.

Some deaf people can hear radio programmes with the help of aids and/or amplified headphones of course.

Many 'blind' people have some level of sight - seeing light and dark for instance - and a lot will 'watch TV' with their sighted family, so there is now a facility - called audio description - that can be used to help them follow what is happening even though there is no dialogue.
 
Subtitles transmitted with audio would turn the transmission into a TV programme, requiring far more bandwidth. Besides, there's already a good alternative; it's called a b o o k. Or, if you prefer to stare at a screen, how about something like a Kindle?
 
There may be a legal licencing issue with there being visible as well as audible conten - but no more than existing Freeview radio channels do with MHEG.
It wouldn't be "far more bandwidth", RDS radio, DAB, CD-Text, Karaoke CD all fit adequate text/graphic streams into the original allocated space.
 

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