Real-time Captioning & Transcribing
Caption Colorado is the largest provider of real-time captioning for the U.S.
television industry. Our real-time service is some of the most affordable in the
industry, and we deliver 98% or better accuracy, as assured by our Quality
Assurance Program.
With over 85 captioners in all national time zones, we can provide on-demand
real-time captioning and transcription around-the-clock. Our real-time text
generation is applicable to all programming and Internet presentations.
Highlights from select applications
Television industry
Closed captioning is created real-time and sent to the station to embed in the
television broadcast within seconds of the spoken word. All televisions, 13"
and larger, built after 1993 can display closed captioning on Line 21. Live
captioning fully meets FCC requirements.
Teleconferencing
Audio and video teleconferencing sessions can include captioning a live
transcript of the discussion, created real-time and available as the event
occurs. The session transcript allows late arrivals to catch up on the missed
conversation and a full transcript is available as the session concludes. The
transcript is keyword searchable and is created in an XML format. A customer
personalized viewer window is available.
Education
Captioning a professor's live lecture in the classroom can support deaf
students, classroom learning, and can help professors develop online learning
and distance education materials more expediently. Captured audio along with
the transcript can be streamed to the Internet in a secure setting so only
authorized users can hear and view the lecture. Live captioning gives all
students the ability to see, in addition to hear, the lecturer's words, and
enhances learning.
Financial Reporting
Federal Regulation FD (Fair Disclosure) requires greater company compliance
with publicly distributed information. Webcasts and written transcripts can
assist in meeting compliance. Private board meetings (with secure captioning),
public sessions, and investor relation calls are ideal candidates for real-time
transcripts.
Special Events
Festivals, annual meetings, conventions, sporting events, crusades, and more
can be enhanced with real-time transcripting of the event. Captioned text can be
delivered to television screens, Jumbotrons, web-enabled cellular phones,
wireless PDAs, alpha pagers, and the Internet.
Benefits of Real-time Captioning
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Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers are able to "hear" the weather, live cut-away
shots, sports and emergency notifications and coverage.
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Viewers are able to understand valuable, possible life-saving, information from
your broadcasts during an emergency or crisis situation.
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Real-time captioning provides verbatim captioning as the news broadcaster,
weather and sportscasters announce. Newsroom captioning only broadcasts
pre-scripted materials.
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Our captioners are located across the United States. When local captioners are
retreating to safety during an emergency, Caption Colorado captioners, in other
cities, safely and surely caption the emergency and local news for the station,
providing viewers with important safety information.
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Make a positive impact and build loyalty with the deaf and hard-of-hearing
community.
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Compliance with FCC regulations and requirements.
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Caption Colorado helps meet responsibilities with reliability and flexibility
for every news broadcast, sporting event and emergency.
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The deaf and hard-of-hearing represent on average, 10% of a market.
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Ratings: Captioning insures that every metered household with a deaf or
hard-of-hearing inhabitant is viewing your newscasts.
