Re-speaking

A captioning technique in which a trained operator listens to a speaker and repeats (re-speaks) their words clearly into a high-quality microphone in a controlled environment, allowing automatic speech recognition software to generate captions with higher accuracy than direct ASR. Re-speaking is commonly used in the UK and Europe as an alternative to stenography-based CART captioning. While generally accurate, it cannot produce punctuation automatically, introduces notable delay, and requires extensive training for operators to listen and speak simultaneously.