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Closed Caption Services provide written text of spoken words to aid accessibility for the deaf/hard of hearing in videos, TV shows, and events. It’s an essential tool for promoting inclusivity and accessibility in today’s digital age. Skilled captioners use specialized software and equipment to transcribe the dialogue, sound effects, and other relevant information in real-time, ensuring a complete viewing experience for those who may not be able to hear or understand the spoken words. Closed Caption Services are widely used in various industries and have become a legal requirement for many organizations.

Using Caption Services also benefits non-native speakers, individuals in noisy environments, and people with learning disabilities, making it a valuable tool for a broader audience.

By Jake Drown

5 Issues with Closed Captioning Your Own Videos

Close captioning is a great way to make videos more accessible to viewers who are hard of hearing or deaf. Unfortunately, it can often be tricky to implement with your own videos, and there are plenty of issues that you may encounter. This article will discuss 5 of the most common issues associated with close captioning your own videos, so you can be better prepared for the task.

Issue 1: Finding the Time to Do It
Close captioning is a very time-consuming process and it is often difficult to find time to do it in your own schedule. Not only does it take time to actually add the captions, but you also have to watch the video while creating the captions, which can take significantly longer than the actual captioning. It’s a good idea to break the video down into smaller parts, so you can work on it in more manageable chunks, but it still takes a lot of time to get the job done.

By Robin Walters

Attention Marketing: Closed Captioning Increases SEO

There’s been some debate lately about whether search engine optimization (SEO) is dead. It’s true that millennials are splitting their searches between the traditional Google and a host of other topic-specific sites that share consumer ratings of products and services. These days, millennials want to know what their friends think about a service before buying.

By Ryan Hawthorne

FCC Captioning Quality Improvements

The FCC unanimously voted to adopt new standards for closed captioning on television programming. The new rules are meant to ensure the best efforts of video programming distributors to improve closed captioning quality. The new standards focus on quality improvement to post-produced closed captioning in four specific areas: accuracy, synchronicity, completeness and placement.

By Ben Kalb

FCC Sets Deadlines For Internet Captioning

Another important milestone to providing accessibility over the Internet has been reached. In October 2010, President Obama signed the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) into law. Among the things it required was closed captioning for video programming delivered over the Internet.​

By Ben Kalb

Adding Captions in DVD Studio Pro for Accessibility

Many people are aware that a DVD can contain subtitles, but few realize that closed captions can also be included. In fact, authoring a DVD with captions may seem like a daunting task, but it is actually a much easier process than you might think.​

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