captioner

One who, or that which, adds captions.

Noun

  1. One who, or that which, adds captions.
    • Some captioners will raise or lower the captions in the center by one row to add one more subtle differentiation, but this is uncommon. - 2004, Gary D. Robson, The Closed Captioning Handbook, Elsevier, page 177:
    • 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...
    • 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. - 2009 September 24, Mark Lawson, “The problems of...

Origin

From caption + -er.

Forms

captioners