Creating access and compliance MHSA New Captioning Technologies for Live and Pre-produced Media presented by Mark Hall Sales Associates and Automatic Sync

creating access and complianceMHSA

New Captioning Technologiesfor Live and Pre-produced Media

presented byMark 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

A Short History of Captioning


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


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.

Section 508 Standards


http://www.state.ny.us/executive_orders/exeorders/3.pdf

NYS Executive Order Three


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.

NYS CIO/OFT


Software and Hardware Vendors:http://www.captions.org/softlinks.cfm

Service Providers:http://www.dcmp.org/caai/nadh11.pdf

General Captioning Resource Links


• Cost

• Availability

• Technology

Live Captioning – The Problem


Event

Captioner

Video Appliance

Separate URL

Consumer

Program

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data

Live Captioning


• $90 to $200+ per hour

• Technology Considerations– Audio to Captioner– Return path to streaming device– Separate caption window

Cost – Live Captioning


• Finite number of stenographers– approximately 24,000– Cook County example– even smaller number of Steno-captioners

• approximately 600

Availability


• 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


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


$4995.00

an example of a typical captioning software


• Caption Mic– ULTECH LLC/NCI

• CaptionSync– Automatic Sync Technologies

Two Solutions


• 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


• 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


• 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


• Text substitution keys

• Dictation Macros

• Vocabulary - customization

Caption Mic program features


• Edit text errors

• Adjust caption timing

• Export to:– Windows Media Player– QuickTime– Flash– Real Player– DVD .scc standard

Caption Wrap Features


Media Transcript Caption Editor Caption File

10:1 – 16:1

6 to 8 hours 4 to 8 hours

at $10/hr: $60 to $80

at $15/hr: $90 to $120

at $10/hr: $40 to $80

at $15/hr: $60 to $120

Total: $100 to $240 / video hour

Media Captioning – Traditional Methods (In House)


Media Caption FileCaption Mic / Caption Wrap

1:1 to 3:1

1 to 3 hours

at $10/hr: $10 to $30

at $15/hr: $15 to $45

Total: $10 to $45 per video hour

Media Captioning – Caption Mic


Caption Mic software $3700.00

Caption Wrap software: $2100.00

Caption Mic Webcast: $6500.00

Caption Mic Pricing


Mark Hall

Mark Hall Sales Associates LLC

203-574-5128

[email protected]

www.mhsa.us

Brent Robinson

Automatic Sync Technologies

877-278-7962

[email protected]

www.automaticsync.com

To create a CaptionSync account:

http://www.automaticsync.com/caption/mhsa_sign_up.php

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Creating access and compliance MHSA New Captioning Technologies for Live and Pre-produced Media presented by Mark Hall Sales Associates and Automatic Sync