captioner

English

Etymology

From caption +‎ -er.

Noun

captioner (plural captioners)

  1. One who, or that which, adds captions.
    • 2004, Gary D. Robson, The Closed Captioning Handbook, Elsevier, page 177:
      Some captioners will raise or lower the captions in the center by one row to add one more subtle differentiation, but this is uncommon.
    • 2007, Ferguson's Careers in Focus: Broadcasting, 3rd edition, Ferguson (imprint), Infobase Publishing, page 123,
      In the broadcast setting, real-time captioners do not have to produce transcripts, which eliminates the long hours that go along with that aspect of reporting.
    • 2009 September 24, Mark Lawson, “The problems of subtitling the news”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2026:
      And how relieved the Ceefax captioners must be that Sir Alex Ferguson still refuses to give interviews to Match of the Day, because of a BBC documentary that upset him.

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