MHSA creating access and compliance About AST AST was founded in 1998 Funded by the US Dept of Education NIDRR grants to create an automated captioning system. AST provides an automated, web-based captioning system for captioning web media, videotapes, DVDs, podcasts, and other media. AST’s captioning system has been in service for over 5 years; used by hundreds of colleges and universities across the US. © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance AST’s Goals Faster Cheaper Easier Scalable © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance What Does AST Do? Off-line captioning for the following: o Streaming Web media Flash Windows Media QuickTime Real YouTube o Podcast media o DVDs o Broadcast/Videotape Video Search and Navigation output DVD Transfer (VHS/DVD-to-captioned-DVD service) Transcription services © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance Production Simplicity Web-base interface; no need to exchange physical media. Directly accept most media types (.wmv,.rm,.flc,.mov,.m4a,.m4v,.mp4,.mp3,.wav, etc) Integrated transcription if required (we do not use ASR) Many result types available! Get back multiple result types from a single submission – no extra costs. © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance Output Types Available Media Players YouTube Flash iTunes Windows Media QuickTime Real Encore DVD Studio Pro Sonic DVDLab Pro DVD Google Video AST Search Pixtron Browsable Transcripts Search Data © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies Echo360/Apreso MediaSite Tegrity Content Systems More than 40 different outputs. Pick and choose. Broadcast/Videotape CPC Cheetah RapidText MPEG

MHSA creating access and compliance How to? Four basic steps in using automatic captioning: Record your media file Submit the files to the AST server Embed the caption data in your media file (if required) Post your media! © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance Set options; more on this in a minute. © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance Perfect for Short Clips Your total outlay for a 8 minute clip would be $11.67 if you had a text transcript or $27.17 if you did not. No outlay for software No annual maintenance or support contract Not locked to a seat -- have as many people use it as you like: Mac, Linux, and PC users Virtually no training required And it gets significantly cheaper if you do more volume © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance How Do We Scale? We remove the problematic HR element: o Eliminate the need for recruitment o Eliminate the need for supervisors o Eliminate the need for training o Eliminate the need to pay benefits o Eliminate the turnover issues o Eliminate scheduling issues around holidays and exams We can easily handle hundreds of concurrent captioning requests from across multiple campuses © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance How Do We Scale? CaptionSync can accept any quantity of audio or video files via: Secure website (no per seat licensing constraints) AST-Link for Windows application (drop multiple files at a time) AST-Link for Mac AppleScript droplet (drop multiple files at a time) Simple workflow integration via command line XML/SFTP (make it all happen automatically) © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance Web Interface © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance AST-Link © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies

MHSA creating access and compliance XML/SFTP Integration © 2008 Automatic Sync Technologies Web Media File Caption Results

MHSA creating access and compliance Contact Mark Hall Mark Hall Sales Associates LLC Brent Robertson, MASc, MBA Automatic Sync Technologies x720 To create a CaptionSync account:

MHSA creating access and compliance