Automatic Sync Technologies provides captioning and transcription services to educational institutions, government agencies, broadcasters, and corporations. Our mission is simple: provide high quality captioning and transcription services that are inexpensive, fast, and easy to use. Explore our site and discover how to make your media more effective and meaningful.
Compliance & Improved Retention
Educators use CaptionSync not only to make their video material compliant with accessibility laws, but also to improve the quality of their media. Captioned video is accessible to a wider audience, searchable and greatly improves student comprehension and retention. The use of new Lecture Capture systems means more students are able to use recorded video material for study purposes, so the additional benefits of captioning are realized.
Compliance & Expanded Audience Reach
Broadcast captioning broadens audience reach – to hearing impaired viewers, to ESL viewers, to viewers in environments where it is difficult to hear the audio – and delivers a greater understanding of the media. Creating video broadcast in multiple languages also increases market reach and impact.
Compliance & Internet Search Ranking
Captioning Internet media improves search engine discovery and complies with accessibility standards. Captioning a web broadcast makes it viewable by a wider range of of viewers, in a wider range of environments.
Compliance & Preparedness
Government effectiveness relies on comprehensive communication and accommodating several types of viewers. From learning to analysis, captions and transcripts increase understanding and effectiveness in all government sectors.
Compliance & Global Reach
Corporate use of video extends far beyond traditional advertising to include distance training, corporate meeting webcasts, investor relations and marketing in social media channels. Captioning gives employees and customers greater comprehension of messages and materials, and makes media accessible to a global corporation’s wide variety of audiences.
Educational institutions, government agencies and broadcasters – on television or the Internet - are required to caption video in support of Federal and state accessibility laws. Sections 504 and 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ensure that people with disabilities have access to information in a way that meets their needs.
CaptionSync can make your broadcasts, vodcasts and videos ADA-compliant by utilizing our captioning and transcription services. Read more about accessibility regulations.
Captioning Beyond Compliance
Beyond accessibility, captioning your media adds tremendous value:
- Improved Indexing and Searching: Use captions or transcripts as meta data to make your video text-searchable, and to make web-embedded video search engine friendly.
- Viewer Flexibility: With the increasing popularity of mobile devices, viewers may be in environments where access to the audio is limited. Captioning allows them to view content whether they are in the library, at a concert or on a noisy bus.
- Improved Accessibility for ESL Viewers: There are more viewers with English as a second language than there are with English as a first language — captioning can help your message reaches this much larger audience.
- Improved Comprehension: Captioning improves comprehension and retention of the media content for all viewers.
Who Uses Our Services?
CaptionSync users come from a wide variety of industries and cover a broad set of functions within those industries:
Broadcast and video producers: Television producers, television stations, religious broadcasters
Internet media producers: web video creators, creators of podcasts or vodcasts, content aggregators.
Education institutions: Media, video and broadcast departments, disability services departments, distance learning and instructional designers, faculty, universal learning designers.
Government: agencies producing videos for communications and training.
Corporate: training, media relations and communications departments.
Services We Offer
Automatic Sync Technologies offers a number of captioning-related services:
- Captions & Subtitles: for web media, video sharing sites, DVDs, videotape, and broadcast.
- Transcription: trained stenographers produce transcripts of your audio or video material.
- Digital NLE Caption Post Processing to produce broadcast captions that can be imported into your NLE software.
- Results Review and Copy Edit services to have your final results professionally reviewed before you publish them.
- DVD Transfer to transfer your exisiting VHS or DVD media to captioned DVDs.
- Lecture Capture Captioning Automation with partners Echo360, Mediasite and Panopto.
CaptionSync Advantages
CaptionSync was designed from the beginning to make captioning quick, easy, and inexpensive. Here are just a few of the advantages our users realize when they use CaptionSync:
- Cost: CaptionSync pricing is significantly lower than traditional captioning vendors.
- Availability: CaptionSync is available 24×7 via the Web.
- Ease of use: Using CaptionSync is as simple as logging on to a website and submitting your media. Bulk upload tools are provided for large amounts of content.
- Turnaround: CaptionSync is very fast — just minutes when you provide your own transcript, or just 1 to 3 days when we do the transcription for you.
- Security: CaptionSync uses secure, encrypted links for receiving content from you and returning your results.
- No Installation: No special software is required to use CaptionSync so there are no installation headaches and no software maintenance issues.
- Wide range of outputs: CaptionSync offers over 40 different caption output formats today, and new ones are added frequently. Users may choose as many formats as they wish for no additional cost.
- Simple payment processing: AST offers multiple payment options including credit card payments. Bulk discounts are also available.
- Integration available: CaptionSync can be completely integrated into your systems to allow for completely automated and transparent workflow.
Costs & Getting Started
AST offers affordable captioning and transcription services. Select your industry for detailed pricing: Broadcast, Corporate, Education, Government, Internet Media
Getting started is simple! Create an account, log on to upload your media, and receive results back in minutes.
