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New Captioning Technologies for Live and Pre-produced Media

New Captioning Technologies for Live and Pre-produced Media. presented by Mark Hall Sales Associates and Automatic Sync Technologies. 1979 – WGBH and the National Captioning Institute ABC News – Evening news captioned offline and rebroadcast 4 hours later Captioned using stenography.

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New Captioning Technologies for Live and Pre-produced Media

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  1. New Captioning Technologiesfor Live and Pre-produced Media presented by Mark Hall Sales Associates and Automatic Sync Technologies

  2. 1979 – WGBH and the National Captioning Institute • ABC News – Evening news captioned offline and rebroadcast 4 hours later • Captioned using stenography A Short History of Captioning

  3. Television Decoder Circuitry Act of 1990 www.access-board.gov/sec508/guide/1194.24-decoderact.htm FCC Consumer Facts www.fcc.gov/cgb/comsumerfacts/closedcaption.html

  4. Section 508 Standards http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=12 § 1194.24 Video and multimedia products. (c) All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, regardless of format, that contain speech or other audio information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be open or closed captioned. (d) All training and informational video and multimedia productions which support the agency's mission, regardless of format, that contain visual information necessary for the comprehension of the content, shall be audio described. (e) Display or presentation of alternate text presentation or audio descriptions shall be user-selectable unless permanent.

  5. NYS Executive Order Three http://www.state.ny.us/executive_orders/exeorders/3.pdf

  6. NYS CIO/OFT http://www.oft.state.ny.us/policy/S07-001/S07-001.pdf NYS MANDATORY TECHNOLOGY STANDARD S07-001 3. Accessibility. All webcasts must have synchronized captioning (text transcript that is coordinated in time with the audio and video tracks). Synchronized captioning must be available for on-demand webcasts no later than seven days following the meeting. Those agencies and public authorities webcasting in realtime may provide synchronized captioning in real-time or in on-demand webcasts no later than seven days following the meeting.

  7. General Captioning Resource Links Software and Hardware Vendors: http://www.captions.org/softlinks.cfm Service Providers: http://www.dcmp.org/caai/nadh11.pdf

  8. Cost • Availability • Technology Live Captioning – The Problem

  9. Live Captioning Program Event Video Appliance audio Consumer Separate URL data Captioner

  10. $90 to $200+ per hour • Technology Considerations • Audio to Captioner • Return path to streaming device • Separate caption window Cost – Live Captioning

  11. Finite number of stenographers • approximately 24,000 • Cook County example • even smaller number of Steno-captioners • approximately 600 Availability

  12. Cost • $100 to $500+ per video hour • Availability • Large firms and ‘mom and pop’ operations • Turnaround time: days to weeks • 10:1 to 16:1 • Technology • Caption software; from Free to $8000 Off-Line Captioning – the Problem

  13. from a service provider’s website: $5 per minute of video; client supplies video file and a script file. Add $2/minute if verbatim script is not supplied. So a 60 minute video with transcript: $300.00/hour without transcript: $420.00/hour Two Examples of Traditional Caption Service and Product

  14. an example of a typical captioning software $4995.00

  15. Caption Mic • ULTECH LLC/NCI • CaptionSync • Automatic Sync Technologies Two Solutions

  16. Speech Recognition Technology • Voice captioner repeats what is being said at event • Creates: • Live Caption Stream • Timed Text XML file Caption Mic for Live and pre-produced Media

  17. Wide range of persons can learn to be a voice captioner • existing staff • new hires • Lowers the cost of labor • typically $10 to $15 per hour • Time required to caption offline media • 1:1 to 3:1 • Training period is relatively short • days and weeks Benefits of using Speech Recognition

  18. Line 21 VBI captions • Windows Media Server preserves Line 21 captions • Interface to VBrick media appliance • Timed Text XML output (with Caption Wrap) Caption Mic Features

  19. Text substitution keys • Dictation Macros • Vocabulary - customization Caption Mic program features

  20. Caption Wrap Features • Edit text errors • Adjust caption timing • Export to: • Windows Media Player • QuickTime • Flash • Real Player • DVD .scc standard

  21. Media Captioning – Traditional Methods (In House) 10:1 – 16:1 Media Transcript Caption Editor Caption File 6 to 8 hours 4 to 8 hours at $10/hr: $60 to $80 at $10/hr: $40 to $80 at $15/hr: $90 to $120 at $15/hr: $60 to $120 Total: $100 to $240 / video hour

  22. Media Captioning – Caption Mic 1:1 to 3:1 Media Caption Mic / Caption Wrap Caption File 1 to 3 hours at $10/hr: $10 to $30 at $15/hr: $15 to $45 Total: $10 to $45 per video hour

  23. Caption Mic Pricing Caption Mic software $3700.00 Caption Wrap software: $2100.00 Caption Mic Webcast: $6500.00

  24. Contact Mark Hall Mark Hall Sales Associates LLC 203-574-5128 mark@mhsa.us www.mhsa.us Brent Robinson Automatic Sync Technologies 877-278-7962 brent@automaticsync.com www.automaticsync.com To create a CaptionSync account: http://www.automaticsync.com/caption/mhsa_sign_up.php

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