16. The method in accordance with claim 7 , further comprising displaying the unencoded text data on one or more mobile devices.
7. A method for sending caption information to one or more mobile devices, the method comprising: transcribing audio to generate device-generated caption data having control codes, the transcribing audio comprises transcribing audio from an audio event simultaneously with an occurrence of the audio event; removing the control codes from the caption data to produce unencoded text data by removing control codes from a line 21 of a vertical blanking interval (VBI) of a video signal; sending the unencoded text data to one or more mobile devices over a communication network, the sending the unencoded text data comprises sending the unencoded text data to one or more mobile devices coincidentally with the transcribing audio from the audio event; and sending the caption data to a captioning device, the sending the caption data comprises: sending the unencoded text data to the one or more mobile devices simultaneously with the sending of the caption data to the captioning device; and sending the caption data to the captioning device coincidentally with the transcribing audio from the audio event.