Subtitling / closed captioning

[mtbc]

One reason why I value the BBC's content is how comprehensively subtitled their television shows tend to be. Though my hearing is good I have always found it a little challenging to decode sounds into human speech; in noisy rooms I often watch interlocutors' lips. The subtitles have especial value for the many shows in which the BBC coherently edits together archive clips of interviews and performances on some musical theme: I finally find out what the lyrics are.

My father had the same difficulty with listening to speech but was also dyslexic so subtitles ran far too quickly for him.