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

You’re three minutes into a riveting product demo video. The founder is mid-sentence, explaining something brilliant about your business, when you realize you can’t hear a word. Your sound is off. Your boss is in the next room. You’re in a coffee shop. You’re at the gym. You quit the video. That moment, multiplied across

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

It’s Tuesday morning. Your team spent 40 hours creating captions for a 90-minute educational documentary. Color-coded speakers, time-coded for exact sync, positioned to avoid on-screen action. It’s beautiful work. You submit to Netflix. Three hours later, the rejection email lands: “Captions exceed maximum line length on 847 instances. Platform requires maximum 42 characters per line.