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

creating access and compliance MHSA 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

creating access and compliance MHSA Television Decoder Circuitry Act of FCC Consumer Facts

creating access and compliance MHSA § 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

creating access and compliance MHSA NYS Executive Order Three

creating access and compliance MHSA NYS MANDATORY TECHNOLOGY STANDARD S 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

creating access and compliance MHSA Software and Hardware Vendors: Service Providers: General Captioning Resource Links

creating access and compliance MHSA Cost Availability Technology Live Captioning – The Problem

creating access and compliance MHSA Event Captioner Video Appliance Separate URL Consumer Program audio data Live Captioning

creating access and compliance MHSA $90 to $200+ per hour Technology Considerations –Audio to Captioner –Return path to streaming device –Separate caption window Cost – Live Captioning

creating access and compliance MHSA Finite number of stenographers –approximately 24,000 –Cook County example –even smaller number of Steno-captioners approximately 600 Availability

creating access and compliance MHSA 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

creating access and compliance MHSA 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

creating access and compliance MHSA $ an example of a typical captioning software

creating access and compliance MHSA Caption Mic –ULTECH LLC/NCI CaptionSync –Automatic Sync Technologies Two Solutions

creating access and compliance MHSA 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

creating access and compliance MHSA 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

creating access and compliance MHSA 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

creating access and compliance MHSA Text substitution keys Dictation Macros Vocabulary - customization Caption Mic program features

creating access and compliance MHSA Edit text errors Adjust caption timing Export to: –Windows Media Player –QuickTime –Flash –Real Player –DVD.scc standard Caption Wrap Features

creating access and compliance MHSA MediaTranscriptCaption EditorCaption File 10:1 – 16:1 6 to 8 hours4 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)

creating access and compliance MHSA MediaCaption 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

creating access and compliance MHSA Caption Mic software $ Caption Wrap software: $ Caption Mic Webcast: $ Caption Mic Pricing

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