Captioning

Adding captions to your videos is just not preferable, but it is a requirement by law to enable accessibility for all. Adding closed captions to your videos ensures content consumption by deaf and hard off-hearing people and helps viewers with English as a secondary language to understand the content. In the early 90s, the Television […]

Are you a broadcast house just starting its journey of adding captions to your media? Digital Nirvana has the captioning guidelines you need to generate captions. As you navigate through the guidelines and styles for adding captions, an important question needs to be addressed – what type and style of closed captions are best suitable

The world of video content is growing at the speed of light, which is interconnected with the growing importance of closed captions. By 2023, the video will make up 82% of all consumer internet traffic, and the dependency on closed captions is growing. The global captioning and subtitling solution market is expected to grow from

Creating content is to make it accessible for everyone to consume. It is difficult for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers to fully immerse in any conversation or content. Adding captions to any content is the first step to making content accessible to everyone. Captions are generated and added to videos based on the purpose of their

Before we answer the burning questions – why caption accuracy is so important and what is WER; we should first understand what closed captions are, or captions as people usually call them Closed captions are the text versions of the spoken part of the television, movie, or computer presentation that can be turned on or

We cannot stress enough why you should add captions to your content. Apart from being a legal responsibility, adding captions will increase accessibility, reach, and SEO, and improve user engagement. However, the real challenge lies in finding the right captioning solution that can generate accurate captions, not just in English but in other languages too.

In media creation and distribution, words like captioning and transcription gained more prominence as video gained popularity. However, there are many questions like, what is the difference between captioning and transcription, and which the content creator and broadcaster should use? Before we answer these questions, let us first understand what captioning and transcription are. Captioning

One can never emphasize enough the benefits of closed captioning for both content creators and viewers. FCC defined closed captioning as the “audio portion of a television program displayed as text on the TV screen, providing a critical link to news, entertainment, and information for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.” Closed captions’ benefits just

The increasing use of mobile devices has resulted in video being the most powerful way to reach the targeted audience. Cementing this fact is the study done by Cisco that states, by 2023 video will make up for more than 82% of all consumer internet traffic. Adding further to the growth of videos for storytelling,