December 7, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
Rev.com's captioning services have been in wide use at Duke for the last couple years in part because of their affordability (basic captioning is a flat $1.00/minute), the generally high accuracy of the captions, and the overall quality of the...
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October 29, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
While OIT continues to actively explore captioning technologies and vendors as they become available, Rev.com has been the most used captioning vendor at Duke in recent years because of their relatively low cost, and intuitive workflows. Rev just announced a...
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September 6, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
Wirecast recently announced a new cloud-based service that supports live captions based on ASR (automatic speech recognition) and an rtmp re-streaming service. Both work in conjunction with Wirecast 10. This means that if you are using Wirecast 10, you can...
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April 11, 2018
By: Richard Mitchell
As a self-proclaimed accessibility nut, offering subtitles/closed captions isn't simply a nicety in 2018... it's a necessity. This is particularly true now that my ears have passed their prime, perhaps due to one too many Guided by Voices concerts in my...
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April 10, 2018
By: Todd Stabley
Big advances are taking place in intersection of video with AI (Artificial Intelligence). I ran across an interesting article in Streaming Media Magazine called The State of Video and AI 2018 that takes stock of some of these changes and...
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December 7, 2017
By: Todd Stabley
Rev.com, currently the most widely utilized caption service provider at Duke, just announced some new features we wanted to let you know about. All are included at no extra charge in their standard $1.00 per minute service. For more information...
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September 18, 2017
By: Richard Mitchell
Last week, three members of Duke’s Disability Management System (DMS) visited the Technology Engagement Center to provide an AV focused Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) overview and to highlight their services to the Duke Digital Media Community (DDMC). DMS Executive...
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December 13, 2016
By: Todd Stabley
Duke's announcement of a new president last week gave us a fantastic opportunity to take a big stride forward in our use of and advocacy for video captions at Duke. We've been making strides in encouraging the use of captions...
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September 20, 2016
By: Mich Donovan
For anyone looking to add subtitles or captions onto a video in Final Cut, X-Title Importer by Spherico makes pretty short work of the job. [caption id="attachment_2642" align="alignright" width="242"] XTI Interface[/caption] To start, you'll need a supported source format for your captions....
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May 11, 2016
By: Todd Stabley
For those of you who missed the talk Molly Bragg and I gave at Tech Expo last month, we are seeing competition among captioning vendors continue to drive pricing down. The most recent vendor we've tested is Rev (www.rev.com), which...
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