By Jake Drown
Tag: Closed Caption Services
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 Jake Drown
Empowering the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Closed Captioning services are providing a much-needed lifeline to deaf and hard of hearing individuals, allowing them to access critical media content that would otherwise be inaccessible. By providing a text-based translation of the audio, a third-party captioning service can provide those with hearing impairments the same access to audio-based content as their hearing peers. This can include television shows, movies, educational videos and lectures, and even video calls and conferences.
By David Appelt
Closed Captioning: Why you should care about accuracy
Closed captioning and subtitles are not given primary consideration very often. Most of the time, this means that closed captioning gets pushed to the bottom of your list. Your video may end up with the necessary captions, but they might not be helpful, professional, or up to FCC specifications.
By Ben Kalb
Get the Highest Social Media Engagement with Captions
Have you noticed the trend lately? Social media feeds are no longer showing just simple text or images. Now we’re seeing social media platforms shift quickly and favorably toward video. So why is this shift happening? Because the social giants know users are engaging with video more often than plain text or images…
By Ben Kalb
Beyond Spoken Words: The Depth of Accuracy
Quality captions don’t just get the words right, they express every sound and nuance that’s happening on screen. This belief is more than a commitment to showing integrity in our work—it’s a matter of upholding basic, necessary accuracy.
By Ben Kalb
Closed Captions – Not Just for the Hearing Impaired
Closed captioning adds value, whether an audience is hearing impaired or not. With the increase of films distributed globally, closed captioning will play an important role in reaching audiences who previously would have trouble understanding the original content.
By Ryan Hawthorne
Closed Captions, Super Bowl Commercials and the 5-Minute Exemption
The 50th anniversary Super Bowl game is coming up in February.
That means COMMERCIALS, of course. I confess that I actually walk to the kitchen to grab another slice of pizza when play resumes just so I don’t miss those silly commercials.
By Jake Drown
At the Tipping Point
In the same way the ADA required ramps on buildings, closed captioning should be required on all online video content for the hearing impaired.
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.
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