Typical applications of timed text are the real-time subtitling of foreign-language movies on the Web, captioning for people lacking audio devices or having hearing impairments, karaoke, scrolling news items or teleprompter applications.
[3] The DECE incorporated the SMPTE Timed Text in their UltraViolet Common File Format specification.
Today, incompatible formats for captioning, subtitling and other forms of timed text are used on the Web.
This means that when creating a SMIL presentation, the text portion often needs to be targeted to a particular playback environment.
The following is an extract from the English closed captioning file, in SubRip format, for the 1916 Krazy Kat Bugolist film.