Do deaf people play media with sound on?
Do deaf people play media with sound on?
I was wondering if deaf people commonly watch movies or TV with the sound on to feel the sound/music? Or is there not a sense of enjoyment if it can't be heard?
I am not deaf, but this is triggering a pet peeve.
It seems a pretty common occurrence that I will be walking into a restaurant, bar, airport, doctor's office, or whatever, and there will be a TV on a news channel with the sound muted or very low. For F's sake, put the captioning on! What's wrong with you?!?
Adjacent pet peeve: When there's captioning, and a character in a movie speaks a foreign language, and the captions read "[Speaking in French]", or even worse, "[Speaking in foreign language]".
Just caption "Jette-le à l'arrière du camion et emmène-le hors de la ville."! If I do or don't speak French, and if I can hear or if I'm deaf, then the caption would serve the same purpose either way!
The Disney movie Moana made me furious with this, in the flashback during "We Know the Way," when the islanders are singing (I assume) Polynesian, but the lyrics are just "[Singing in foreign language]". The fuck, Disney?! You're usually good at translation!
I think the issue is that the people writing the captions don’t understand and can’t write it down.
Obviously the producers could fix that but it would be a process change, which would take some attention from a powerful person who cares about the issue. As you imply, that seems to be in short supply.
The proper course of action would be to translate the foreign language and add those subtitles in italics.
Yeah, I'd love that. I think a good number of subs I end up downloading are written by some dude trying their best, and if they don't know the language, they can't really begin to guess how to spell the words. But anything released by a studio or on a streaming site has no excuse.
FYI, We know the way is in Samoan and Tokelauan.
Fun fact, Disney worked with the University of Hawaii on a Hawaiian language dub of the movie and Auili’i Cravalho voiced Moana in that version as well. I watch it on occasion to practice my very poor Hawaiian language skills.
Also when it's a spanish place and theres no english subtitles
I lived with a deaf man for a few months and one thing I noticed is he would often forget to turn off the water in the kitchen.
He didn't watch TV at all and was not at all respectful when someone was watching or listening to something. Just constant interruptions.
This just sounds like an asshole, being deaf doesn't change that.
He was an asshole too. But it is easier to forget running water without the audible cue.
I had a friend in high school who had an amazing sound system. He was deaf.
I asked him and he explained that he could feel many of the sounds. So while he couldn’t hear the finest details, there was a lot he could make out.
yes. you can feel bass.
I would expect them to watch at the lowest volume level. The "muted" icon on screen would me annoy too much.
My mom has quite severe hearing loss but is not totally deaf. She uses TV captioning and generally can't tell whether the TV sound is on or off. I generally want it to be off because it is annoying, so when she leaves it on by accident, I just shut it off and she doesn't notice or anyway doesn't care.
I'm Deaf and don't care for sounds or the bass most of the time. That's just me though. I know some Deaf people who love listening to music with headsets or playing video games with headsets. There's a spectrum.
My stepson is profoundly hard of hearing so he'll crank that shit up to 11. His Bluetooth hearing aides are excellent when he's listening to something privately and you often can't tell anything is playing over them (which he'll do pretty often while having a conversation because he lip reads) but if he wants to share a video or music he'll crank that shit way up.