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Sean Zdenek

soundwriting, visual design, inclusive media, rhetoric

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Tag: police siren

Do sirens always wail?

Posted on January 7, 2016August 15, 2018 by Sean Zdenek
A frame from Prophecy 3: The Ascent featuring a cityscape at night and the closed caption: [SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]

How often are sirens described as wailing in closed captioning? What else do sirens do in closed captioning other than wail? Does it matter? An analysis of nonspeech descriptions of siren sounds in a corpus of DVD caption files.

Read the full post on ReadingSounds.net.

Posted in Captioning, Data Mining, Non-SpeechTagged alarm sounds, blaring, nonspeech closed captioning, police siren, sirens, wailing

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