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By Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com  It was very loud in Afghanistan and Iraq, and soldiers often come back with ruptured eardrums and other hearing-related injuries. Captioning your sermon is a huge service to soldiers coming back from the battlefield.
By Christopher Mann for ReSermon.com
The deaf and hard of hearing relate to the hearing world in a diversity of ways, but in recent years, closed captioning has become so technologically easier and economically affordable, that in 2015 the FCC mandated closed captioning for commercial broadcasting.
You immediately expand your ministry reach to the deaf and hearing alike.
“When you're walking through season of adversity, God is at work. No matter what the adversity, God will finish the work.” A Beautiful Promise: Part 3 by Pastor Ron Williams Pathway Community Church, Fort Wayne, Ind. Transcribed and closed captioned by ReSermon  In 2009, Google introduced automated closed captioning for its videos, marking a wonderful advance for the deaf and hard of hearing. Google deserves mega kudos for this advancement. It is not just "better than nothing." The innovation can be truly helpful, and six years later, the tech is still being improved.
That said, there are still major reasons that content makers in general, and churches in particular, should not rely on Google Automatic Captioning (GAC): |
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