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If you find closed captions on a TV program is not good – wrong timing, wrong words, missing captions, you as a consumer can file a complaint to FCC.  The following details are extracted from:https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/202701124-Closed-Captioning-on-Television Closed captioning displays the audio portion of a television program as text on the TV screen, providing a critical link […]

Preparing your captioned video for the web TV broadcast producers now need a way to get their videos that were closed-captioned for broadcast onto the web without losing the captions. Our software can easily handle any situation. It can extract and convert closed captions to any required format. If a frame rate or time code […]

On Friday, October 8, 2010, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. This new law expands the requirements for web video captioning and accessibility services. More specifically, it requires that any closed-captioned television program be closed captioned when delivered over the Internet. The law […]

Oftentimes, clients who need captioning may not have a video file or tape master to provide a caption service company. The only source video is found as a completed DVD-Video master. This poses many challenges for captioners, because they have to find a way to access the video which is found on the DVD disc. […]

A transcript must be created before the closed captioning process can begin for pre-recorded material. While listening to a video, a typist can easily transcribe the video using any standard word processor. Since closed captioning software is designed to format and timestamp the transcribed text for TV broadcast, the transcription process is done faster outside […]

Quality closed captioning is a priority for organizations that communicate through TV and online videos. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 37 million adults in the United States had trouble hearing (ranging from a little trouble to being deaf) in 2006. Many of them rely on closed captioning to comprehend videos, failing […]

Most people believe that they must choose between using a closed captioning service or buying captioning software in order to meet their captioning needs. A third choice exists which has proven highly cost-effective for many organizations.   This third option, known as the Hybrid Captioning Solution, is the subject of this article.  What is the Hybrid […]

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 37 million adults in the United States had trouble hearing (ranging from a little trouble to being deaf) in 2006. These viewers have not been able to enjoy Internet videos because most captions are created only for TV. However, recent changes to FCC closed captioning regulations […]

TV broadcast video is usually mastered to include segment breaks of five or ten seconds of black to accommodate commercials, but these breaks are unnecessary for Internet video. Content creators must edit these commercial breaks out, but this simple change can result in the TV captioning data going out of sync or being deleted altogether.   […]

Traditionally, bringing closed captioning in-house just wasn’t feasible for most organizations, due to the high cost of the necessary hardware and software–not to mention the specialized training required to run the system. However, recent advances in affordable and easy-to-use closed captioning software encoders have made it possible for anyone to create their own closed captions, […]