Automatic Sync Technologies (AST) is pleased to provide an automated web-based captioning service (for Legal applications click here ).   AST has devised a very convenient and fast system that allows you to submit your content via an easy-to-use web interface, and receive back caption files within a few minutes.   Our CaptionSync system automatically takes care of parsing the text into appropriate captions, synchronizing them with the audio, and formatting the output for webcasts, DVDs, or videotapes.

Why Caption?

While captioning audio/video presentations is a lifeline for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, captioning can be used to improve your product and enhance its accessibility to a much larger community.   Captioning offers the following important benefits:

  • ADA Compliance : Compliance with Section 508 requires that all broadcast or distributed video content be captioned.   This applies to webcast material as well as traditional video broadcasts, video tapes, and DVDs.
  • Universal Access : Design your content from the ground up to be as usable as possible by as many people as possible.   Captioning is a key element of Universal Design for video material, especially for educational material.   Captioning provides an alternative channel of information and allows a larger community of viewers to have access.
  • Improving Comprehension : Captioning improves comprehension for all viewers, especially for those with English as a second language.   Noise or distractions in the listening environment, underdeveloped English skills on the part of the listener, or heavy accents on the part of the talker all work to deteriorate the message being communicated.   Captioning can improve comprehension in all these cases.
  • Indexing and Searching : Because captioning involves the synchronization of text content with the audio/video material, it allows the content to become easily searchable with traditional text searches.   This allows viewers to have rapid access to the parts of the content they need.   This is particularly important for educational materials and corporate presentations.
  • Alleviating Increasing Stress on Physical Facilities : Many institutions are looking to online education to deliver instruction to growing ranks of learners while controlling their on-campus facilities costs.   Improving the quality and comprehension of remotely delivered material is critical to reducing the need for physical presence.

Why use AST's CaptionSync?

AST's automated captioning service provides 3 main benefits:

  • Speed : Results are available minutes later (an on hour long program is captioned in less than 5 minutes !) - a fraction of the time needed for traditional captioning.
  • Convenience : No tapes to ship, no paperwork to do, no software to install; just submit your show over the web and get the results. CaptionSync always available and never has sick days or vacation. It couldn't be easier.
  • Cost : AST captioning costs just a fraction of traditional captioning.   And the more you do, the less expensive it gets.   Call us for pricing details.