Realtime
Captioning Services
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Realtime captioning services are primarily provided for live programming.
These events typically include newscasts, sporting events, legislative programs,
or special event programming. Basically, any broadcast that is a live event
can be captioned using realtime services.
The approximate size of the audience that has a hearing loss in the United
States is 31.5 million people. This does not include non-native viewers
using captioning to learn English, bars, airports, gyms, or other noisy
environments where viewers can only rely on reading the captions to hear your
program. Having your program captioned helps to provide an extended reach to
viewers in these environments who may not normally view a captioned show.
IR Broadcast Captioning provides our clients with a comprehensive package of
services to ensure your captioned programs are accurate and complete.
In a typical one-hour newscast, our captionists may be exposed to over 30 different
news items, and each of these stories has their own terminology and unique
words. All the different words
from each story must come out correctly to ensure viewer comprehension.
We strive for a
minimum overall accuracy level of 98% for realtime broadcasts. Off-line
productions are 99.9%. To help keep us maintain this level of accuracy, we
ensure our
captionists are assigned to the same shows or events on an ongoing basis as much
as
possible. The more they continue to write the same type of programming, the
more comprehension, knowledge, and understanding they have of arising issues.
The end result, even better captioned content.
This all comes
down to preparation. When our team takes on a new show, it’s our research team that
first goes to work and gathers core information about the programming we will
do. Once this information is gathered by the research team, our captionists
then start reviewing the information, entering the key words into their
dictionaries and testing each new entry to ensure accuracy.
For example, if it’s a sports program, then specifics of that sport, player
names, past players, and even future prospects all need to be included.
Trust IR Broadcast Captioning for all your live events. Contact us toll-free at
877.261.7962 to further discuss our services.
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