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re-speaker

re-speaker
 n.— «A “re-speaker,” listening to the performer’s speech during the program, utters the content of that speech into the speech recognizer, which automatically produces a caption script.» —“First ‘Kohaku Utagassen’ Closed Captioning Service” NHK-TV (Japan) Feb., 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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