Latest news

Introducing Facebook Live Captions

Facebook announced support for the display of closed captions on Facebook Live broadcasts — a milestone in making video on Facebook accessible to all members of the community. We’re very proud to partner with Facebook to offer our services that enable more people to view live video on Facebook.

More Info Book Now

Live Captioning

Real-time captions delivered to your laptop, tablet or smartphone.

Learn more

Closed Captions

Closed captions for movies, TV shows, lectures, websites, YouTube, Facebook and more.

Learn more

Transcripts

We deliver fast, accurate transcripts for video and audio content.

Learn more

We want to create a world that is more open and accessible.

The world is full of great content – movies, university lectures, YouTube and Facebook videos. But most isn’t accessible to everyone which is frustrating for people that are excluded. We’ve built our business to bridge this gap adding captions to any live event or recorded materials. We provide access to great content to millions of people every day. What can we do for you?

[ FREE DOWNLOAD ]

The Ultimate Captioning Toolkit

Download this easy-to-follow captioning guide filled with techniques perfected over 12 years. This will get you creating professional quality captions FOR FREE to increase reach, drive engagement and grow your sales.

These are the exact tips and techniques used by the team at Ai-Media to create thousands of hours of captions every week.

More info

Stay connected with us.

What People Think

As a hearing person, I find all the vids I have seen so far very informative. Keep them coming because I am sharing them all. As humans we can only do better, when we know better!! So thanks for taking the time to educate those of us living in the hearing world.

Valorie Lobban

2017-06-24T12:26:47+0000

It added perspective for me. Those basic ASL signs could help in a crucial situation. I hope to find similar basics for helping someone in medical need also. I will be following. Thank You.

Les Williams

2017-06-21T15:39:13+0000

Am enjoying learning something my 7 year old twin daughters are learning just because it interests them.

Roberta Martin Dumont

2017-06-17T01:15:13+0000

Informative, beautiful. I have always wanyed to learn sign and want to educate others in the hearring community so they can help others in good times and bad. Wonderful channel

K Arrin Mccain

2017-06-16T20:26:27+0000

Ima really iike this site cause i can learn a lot about sign language, keep it going and i will keep visiting and commenting.

Linda Martin

2017-06-14T17:14:11+0000

I am interested in the world of Sign language especially ASL because i am a hearing impaired. If i am not Deaf this page or sign language would not have been impacted on my life. Thanks to Ai-Media page

Tony Odu-yaya

2017-06-14T04:06:11+0000

As someone who is part of the hard of hearing/ deaf community, I love reading these posts! Thank you for sharing these and the stories these people have share.

Willow Woods

2017-06-13T19:47:55+0000

as a hearing senior with a deaf grandchild I love your page. It helps me with learning my signs and I love practicing with everything you do. even news casts are practice for me. Thank you :)

Monica Griffiths

2017-06-10T04:55:50+0000

Great page, lots of beautiful stuff on here! I can't wait to share and hopefully see my son's video on here!

Jen Harway

2017-06-07T17:12:12+0000

How wonderful to see what you young men can do for those home cannot hear.May God bless you both with the tools you need to complete this wonderful New device.Congratulations.

Donna Barba

2017-06-06T01:59:00+0000

I work with special needs children and have been wanting to learn signing. I have taught myself signing by alphabet but not quickly! This is wonderful!

Tammie English

2017-06-04T05:53:30+0000

Thank you for sharing sign language signs. I have a older son who is deaf and is away at college, so I don't get to sign much. So hence to say, "If you don't use it, you lose it." Thank you for helping me to remember.

Cindy Clark Cracraft

2017-06-03T12:31:30+0000

As a hearing/speaking person i love this site,but my only complaint is that only deaf people are advocated for yet what about mutes? I am learning ASL for my daughter who is nonverbal. She hears maybe not completely perfect but is mute so needs ASl to communicate with the world. Why are nonverbals never mentioned?

Glenda Houston

2017-06-01T05:51:38+0000

This is beautiful, I have many family members who were born hearing and many who were Born deaf. My father know both worlds. So this is a beautiful page and I'm so happy to have found you

Victoria R. Smith

2017-05-25T02:27:10+0000

I was thinking to my self I need so etching interesting something that will help me learn ASL and this it's what I want this is what I love I so called a "hearing person " to deaf ppl but that's ok but I respect each and ever deaf person I couldn't and haven't been thru what your going thru but I tbh it's not all that great to hear gun shots down the street, or hearing nothing but ppl fighting about the world but any ways I love ASL just started couple weeks ago and still going strong learning a lot every day thank u to this page !!!!!!

Zackery Fox

2017-05-24T04:07:39+0000

Love all the videos! I have worn hearing aids for 32 years and they are remarkable Love what you do!

Karla Bowman

2017-05-20T01:20:59+0000

Thank you for helping me accept that my my hearing loss is not a loss at all, but a gain in myself and this community

Emily Rose Meyers

2017-05-14T03:32:58+0000

It should be taught as early as Kinda ( Pre School ) Every sporting activity instructors should learn , bus and tram attendants , the list goes on

Coral Campbell

2017-05-09T13:16:45+0000

l love your videos they're so enjoyable as well as informative . I pass them on to all FB friends so they too can become more enlightened. Thanks, keep up the good work.

Joy Valizadeh

2017-04-30T12:49:32+0000

Added closed caption on my daughter's inspiring story quickly @ my request with KRDO. Y'all are amazing, thanks!

Jessica Needs

2017-04-17T04:40:21+0000

It's rare to find a Facebook page with so many interesting videos and posts regarding the sign language around the world. It's time to face the reality, the sign language must be taught in schools and people need to understand that expressing through signs is, sometimes, more effective than words. Love this page!!!

Nicholas Pacini

2017-04-05T13:02:30+0000

Sign language is a terrible form of communication that only 1% or less of people understand Writen langauge exists and so does digital text That is the most easiest form of communication for deaf people to non deaf people Text to speech programs exist many of them are used for live streaming for gamers

Joshua Luke Buraczewski

2017-04-01T11:48:41+0000

I'm learning ASL and I love watching the videos on this page! Great stories and awesome practice for me!!

Nicole Lopez

2017-03-26T01:11:01+0000

I appreciate all the stories you put out there and I am so glad people keep sharing these videos because ASL is beautiful just like any other language. You have my support all the way!

Carla Paola Palacios

2017-03-23T23:03:13+0000

I enjoy this website. Many members of my family were deaf. Most of them have passed and I miss seeing the Sign Language. This site gives me the opportunity. Thank you.

June Wiechert

2017-03-20T11:53:39+0000

Such an inspirational site and sharing the excellent posts helps to further increase care, compassion and pride for all human beings . Please keep this wonderful communication going so we can keep sharing these messages with others. Congratulations & appreciation from the Fishers !

Kerry Fisher

2017-03-19T23:06:11+0000

Believe.....We need to show the disability, hearing parents, Deaf people, deaf-blind, hard of hearing, hearing loss, low vision, children, adults, teenager that "WE CAN" do anything to break a leg in order to prove our ability to DO IT! The most powerful silence of the deaf and disability community. Your Beauty, your skin, We are an example of God work and a role model so that the young and older people can look up on us and say: I want to be like her or him!! I CAN do this!!!! We have a hard drive to prove that we need to"Believe in ourself" Our DREAM is not stopped our deafness"!!! The greatest challenge is to beat the odd! Never stopped our deafness or disability. We need to work harder than the hearing world so that they can see us WE CAN!!! I CAN!! YOU CAN!! CAN is a strong positive to motivate us. We should treat people who has different languages. I absolutely love ASL Sign Languages. My hearts goes to the deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind and parents who have deaf children..Passion of LOVE!! Thank you for sharing the world. Join my Fan Page: Beautiful Sign Languages. LOVE, Actress Ellen Rice, Atlanta, GA YOU CAN!! I CAN, WE CAN, CAN DO IT!! THEY CAN!! CAN, CAN, CAN,!!!!!

Ellen Rice

2017-03-16T01:49:07+0000

Excellent!!! I would have to say all the ASL videos truly benefits me to learn more in various information.

Melina Montrose

2017-03-10T20:41:35+0000

‹

›

Making Videos Accessible is What We Do

Captions and subtitles for video

We provide quality closed captions (also referred to as English to English subtitles in some markets) for any piece of video.

Captioning is the representation of a text version of spoken words and sounds typically available on television, online, as well as within education settings. Captions can be displayed in a variety of ways. In the case of broadcast captions, these are normally displayed at the bottom of the video and can be positioned and coloured to indicate which characters are speaking.

Captions are not only a fundamental tool in providing accessibility to those who are Deaf or hard of hearing, they also have many benefits for all, especially those who speak English as an Additional Language (EAL), have Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or learning difficulties.

Captions assist in improving comprehension skills in both listening and reading, recognition of words and vocabulary acquisition, as well as providing an additional method of communicating content.

Captions can be open or closed. Closed captioning (called subtitling in the UK) is the most widely used type of captioning. It gives viewers the option to view captions that are carried with the broadcast signal and the viewer is required to switch the captions on or off. This is done by “opening” the closed captions at the point of viewing. Our captions can be seen across dozens of television channels on both free-to-air and subscription TV. As well as authoring our own original captions, we retime and reformat thousands of hours of captions acquired from our international suppliers to reduce costs for our clients and increase the amount of accessible content. Media that has closed captioning available is commonly identified in program guides and on DVD/video covers by the closed captioning [CC] symbol.

Sometimes it’s important for everyone to receive the message. Open captions are on display for everyone to see and are a permanent fixture on a video. It is also known as ‘burned in’ or ‘hardcoded’ captioning. We deliver open captions in a variety of fonts and styles – great for public places or events – and even YouTube channels. Subtitled foreign films are an example of open captioning.

Learn more about captioning

Live Captioning

Live captioning is the conversion of speech to text in real-time.

At Ai, we deliver thousands of hours of live captioning each month for television, schools, universities, phone conferences and events.

We use two methods to create live captions – stenocaptioning and respeaking.

Stenocaptioners are skilled operators who use a specialist keyboard to create captions by typing chords with a phonetic keyboard.

Respeaking relies on speech recognition software to deliver live captions and requires an operator to listen to an audio feed and respeak those words into the speech recognition software that is specifically trained to their voice. Despite the promises of automatic speech recognition, software-only solutions are a long way from being able to be deployed for live captioning without the need for a respeaker.

Once captions have been created, these words needs to be streamed to our end-users and for this reason we developed our own purpose-built live captioning platform called Ai-Live, which delivers live captions over the internet to any web-enabled device.

With live captioning there is always a delay of around 3-5 seconds between the spoken words and the captions appearing on screen.

We currently offer two types of captions:

Full Text captions that aim to capture all the meaningful words that are spoken; and
Simple Text captions that deliver a single idea in a single sentence. To deliver these, our captioners remove metaphorical and figurative language, as well as breaking down complex instructions into a single step in a single sentence. Simple Text is especially useful for students with autism (or ASD) who have audio processing issues. It can reduce the anxiety caused by trying to process too much information. Students for whom English is an additional language (EAL) also benefit from simplified captions to support access to lesson content.

Learn more about live captioning

Transcription

We’ll accurately transcribe your audio and email it to you as fast as you need it. We use real people, not software, meaning you get an accurate representation of your audio or video recording. We offer transcription services for meetings, interviews, notes, lectures, video footage, and anything that can be recorded.

We offer two types of transcription, verbatim transcripts (or word-accurate transcripts) and content-accurate transcripts. Content-accurate transcripts are created using the same captioning method we use for live broadcast content to an accuracy rating of 98%. We don’t capture every word, but we capture everything that matters. The result is you end up with a transcript that’s shorter whilst still retaining the accuracy of the content. This method is often faster and cheaper.

If you’re interested in a transcription quote, get in touch with us now. We charge per minute with volume discounts available. All our work is 100% guaranteed which means we won’t stop until you’re happy.

Learn more about transcription