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| Oct 8, 2007 | AST presents a paper entitled "Captioning for Up-And-Coming Media Formats" at the 2007 California Association of Post Secondary Educators of the Disabled (CAPED) Conference. The conference runs October 20-24, 2007 in Ventura Beach, CA. Please also visit us at the exhibit hall during the conference. |
| Aug 3, 2007 | AST co-presents with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas a paper entitled "Captioning Video Material at UNLV for a Better Educational Product" at the 2007 Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning. The conference runs August 8-10, 2007 in Madison, WI. |
| July 23, 2007 | AST is pleased to announce output for captioning Anystream Apreso presentations. This output is available immediately at no additional charge to customers using CaptionSync. |
| June 26, 2007 | Automatic Sync Technologies exhibits at the AHEAD 2007 Conference (www.ahead.org) on July 18-20, 2007. The Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD) annual conference is held in Charlotte, NC. |
| May 31, 2007 | AST presents a workshop entitled "Adding Subtitles in Encore and DVD Studio Pro with CaptionSync" at the NMC Summer Conference 2007 (www.nmc.org) on June 6-9, 2007. The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference is held in Indianapolis, IN. How-to videos are also available on AST's Resources page. |
| Mar 29, 2007 | Automatic Sync Technologies (AST) today announced its CaptionSync automated captioning system now delivers XML caption output for the Adobe Flash CS3 captioning component. This will allow organizations to bring their Flash video into accessibility compliance faster, more affordably, and easier than ever before. This caption output is available immediately at no additional cost to AST users. "Today we offer caption and video search output for every major Flash captioning component. And with Adobe's caption component now included directly in Flash CS3, there's no excuse for not making every Flash video captioned and accessible," said Brent Robertson SVP Marketing at AST. CaptionSync is an online service, available 7x24 and delivers high quality captions within minutes. As an online service, there is no software to buy or install, no volume commitments, and no monthly fees. Government agencies, educational institutions, and television broadcasters are required by state and federal laws to caption their material. "But traditionally, captioning has been very time consuming and expensive to do, and as a result those who aren't forced by law to do so, typically don't. AST is trying to remove those barriers so any Flash video producer can make their video usable by a broader spectrum of users which includes the deaf, hard of hearing, those with learning disabilities, and those with English as a second language," continues Robertson. CaptionSync users can select as many caption output formats as they need, choosing from Flash (DFXP for Flash CS3 or NCAM CCforFlash, Captionate, and/or RIT XML formats), QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Real, broadcast line-21 captions, and/or DVD subtitles. In addition, AST offers Google Video and other search data outputs at no additional cost which enable webcasts to be searchable and indexable. |
| Mar 27, 2007 | AST delivers a one-day course titled "Automated Captioning of Instructional Media" at the High Tech Center Training Unit (HTCTU) in Cupertino, CA on May 24, 2007, covering captioning of streaming media, DVDs, videotape, and podcasts and how to use AST's CaptionSync system to make captioning easy. The HTCTU is the training center for accessibility technologies for the California Community College system. |
| Mar 12, 2007 | AST is pleased to announce support for the NCAM/WGBH Flash captioning component. The CCforFlash component is a free download from the NCAM website. AST's CaptionSync system can produce both the DFXP or the QuickTime output formats needed by this component. These outputs are available immediately at no additional charge to customers using CaptionSync. |
| Mar 1, 2007 | Automatic Sync Technologies has added output for the Captionate XML format for Flash captioning. The component works easily with caption enhanced versions of the standard Adobe FLVPlayback skins and is available directly from the Captionate website. This XML output format is available immediately at no additional charge to customers using CaptionSync. |
| Feb 26, 2007 | Automatic Sync Technologies presents talk titled "How to Caption Podcasts" at CSUN's International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, on March 21, 2007 in Los Angeles, CA. |
| Feb 15, 2007 | Automatic Sync Technologies exhibits at the Community of Academic Technology Staff 2007 Conference (CATS 2007) on March 27 2007 at CSU Fullerton, in Fullerton, CA. |
| Jan 11, 2007 | Automatic Sync Technologies exhibits at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) 2007 Convention (www.nrbconvention.org) on February 17-20, 2007 in Orlando, FL. |
| Jan 2, 2007 | Automatic Sync Technologies has added subtitle output for both MediaChance's DVD Lab Pro and Sonic's DVDit Pro. This is in addition to existing subtitle output for Apple's DVD Studio Pro and Adobe's Encore and is available immediately at no additional charge to customers using CaptionSync. Contact AST for more information. |
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| Sep 18, 2006 | Automatic Sync Technologies exhibits at the California Association of Post Secondary Educators of the Disabled (CAPED) 2006 Conference (wwww.caped.net) on October 8-11, 2006 in Lake Tahoe, CA. |
| Sep 7, 2006 | AST delivers a one-day course titled "Automated Captioning of Instructional Media" at the High Tech Center Training Unit (HTCTU) in Cupertino, CA on September 28, 2006, covering captioning of streaming media, DVDs, videotape, and podcasts and how to use AST's CaptionSync system to make captioning easy. The HTCTU is the training center for accessibility technologies for the California Community College system. |
| Aug 2, 2006 | In an effort to make a website more friendly to screen readers, individuals who resize text, and individuals using PDA or text web browsers, AST launches a new website. The XHTML site uses almost no JavaScript or tables and loads significantly faster. |
| Jun 18, 2006 | Automatic Sync Technologies exhibits at the AHEAD Conference 2006 (www.ahead.org) on August 17-22, 2006. The Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD) annual conference is held in San Diego, CA. |
| May 22, 2006 | Automatic Sync Technologies presents at the NMC Summer Conference 2006 (www.nmc.org) on June 7-10, 2006. The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference is held in Cleveland, OH. |
| Apr 20, 2006 | Automatic Sync Technologies is noted by video producers as an economical way to add captions to DVDs. Read the article in the April edition of iCOM Magazine. |
| Apr 13, 2006 | Automatic Sync Technologies now delivers podcast caption output for Apple's iTunes. This output is available immediately at no additional charge to customers using CaptionSync. Contact AST for more information. |
| Mar 20, 2006 | Automatic Sync Technologies exhibits at PEPNet 2006 Conference April 6-8 2006 in Louisville, KY. |
| Feb 15, 2006 | Automatic Sync Technologies presents at the Community of Academic Technology Staff 2006 Conference (CATS 2006) March 20-22 2006. Click here to see the PowerPoint presentation. |
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| Sep 1, 2005 | Automatic Sync Technologies now delivers timed transcript output for Google Video (video.google.com). This output is available immediately at no additional charge to customers using CaptionSync. Contact AST for more information. |
| Aug 1, 2005 | Automatic Sync Technologies exhibits at the AHEAD Conference 2005 (www.ahead.org) on August 3-5, 2005. The Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD) annual conference is held in Milwaukee, WI. |
| Jun 15, 2005 | Automatic Sync Technologies presents at the NTID Tech Symposium (www.rit.edu/~techsym). This international symposium is focused on Instructional Technology and Education for the Deaf. Click here to see the presentation. |
| Apr 7, 2005 | Automatic Sync Technologies joins the New Media Consortium (www.nmc.org), a not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, and corporations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies. See the press release here. |
| Feb 11, 2005 | UC Davis deploys Automatic Sync Technologies' video search for Biology students. |
| Jan 24, 2005 | Automatic Sync Technologies featured in Washington Assistive Technology Alliance newsletter. Read the full newsletter here. |
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| Nov 15, 2004 | Automatic Sync Technologies exhibits at NCTI's Annual Technology Innovators Conference with Viable Technologies (www.viabletechnologies.com) on November 16 and 17, 2004. See www.nationaltechcenter.org for more information. |
| Sep 22, 2004 | Automatic Sync Technologies delivers webinar entitled "Automated Captioning: Quick, Easy, and Inexpensive" at California Virtual Campus on November 18, 2004. See www.cvc3.org/institute/course_list.cfm for more information. |
| Sep 20, 2004 | Automatic Sync Technologies featured on University of California, Berkeley website for captioning webcasts. See newscenter.berkeley.edu for the full story. |
| Sep 15, 2004 | Automatic Sync Technologies participates in the "Seminar Series from Real" on October 14 in Seattle, WA and on October 19 in San Francisco, CA. Visit www.realnetworks.com/info/seminars04 to sign up. |
| Sep 14, 2004 | RealNetworks www.realnetworks.com) and Automatic Sync Technologies partner to deliver high quality captions for RealMedia quickly and inexpensively. Contact AST to begin captioning your RealMedia today. |
| Sep 1, 2004 | Automatic Sync Technologies presents "Automated Captioning:Delivering Compliance Faster and Cheaper" at the GV Expo 2004 Conference on October 6-7, 2004 in Washington, DC. |
| Jul 15, 2004 | Automatic Sync Technologies presents "Automated Captioning of Webcasts: Universal Benefits" at the CAPED 2004 Conference on October 23-7, 2004 in Monterey, CA. |
| Apr 29, 2004 | Introduced at the opening day of NAB (National Association of Broadcaster's) Convention in Las Vegas, NV, Automatic Sync Technologies' CaptionSync is integrated into CPC's CaptionMaker and MacCaption products. Visit www.cpcweb.com for full details. |
| Mar 26, 2004 | Automatic Sync Technologies exhibits at PEPNet 2004 Conference April 21-24 2004 in Pittsburgh, PA. |
| Mar 19, 2004 | Automatic Sync Technologies featured on the March homepage of the National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI), www.nationaltechcenter.org. |
| Jan 9, 2004 | Automatic Sync Technologies presents talk titled "Automated Closed Captioning: Towards Universal Accessibility" at CSUN's "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" International Conference, March 19, 2004 in Los Angeles, CA. |
