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by soneca 1545 days ago
Also, Closed Captions always describe sounds and lines of background dialog (like TV) that I definitely can’t hear in the sound.

As a non-native English speaker who can hear I often see movies and shows with English audio and English closed captions, the redundancy helps me. It happens all the time that the CC tell things that you just can’t hear in the movie.