[Athen] RE: captioning cost

Terrill Thompson tft at uw.edu
Wed Nov 20 09:16:30 PST 2013


Thanks for sharing these prices Joshua. I'm not familiar with Ceilo24
- does that $1/minute rate include transcription (i.e., starting from
scratch with the un-transcribed media)? If so, and if they provide
good quality work across academic disciplines with specialized
vocabularies, that's by far the best price I've seen.

In the case of Amara, while $1.25 per minute is a great price, I think
there may be a minimum monthly platform usage fee. When I looked into
this over the summer the minimum was $1000 per month, although they
may be willing to negotiate.

There were (I think) three captioning vendors at the Accessing Higher
Ground conference a couple weeks ago. They are:

3PlayMedia
http://www.3playmedia.com/

DocSoft
http://www.docsoft.com/Services/AVS/

ACS
http://www.acscaptions.com/subpages/post-production_services.asp

Automatic Sync Technologies wasn't an exhibitor at AHG this year, but
they were at EDUCAUSE just a couple weeks prior and are also very
active in this space:
http://automaticsync.com/

I'm not sure about DocSoft and ACS, but both 3PlayMedia and Automatic
Sync boast their ability to interface directly with various lecture
capture systems. Pricing models I've seen though are considerably
higher than the ones Josh quoted, more in the neighborhood of
$1.50-$3/minute for full transcription+captioning, varying depending
on turnaround time and number of speakers, with volume discounts
available.

Terrill

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Terrill Thompson
Technology Accessibility Specialist
DO-IT, Accessible Technology Services
UW Information Technology
University of Washington
tft at uw.edu


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Joshua Hori <jhori at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> Amanda,

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> For your consideration:

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> Ceilo24 costs $1 per video minute. (also ties into Kaltura, a video hosting

> service)

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> Amara.org costs $1.25 per video minute. (ceilo24 combines amara into their

> service for translation services)

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> On another note, there is going to be a new announcement from Lighthouse of

> the Blind concerning their new tool, YouDescribe.

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> YouDescribe will allow users to submit youtube and vimeo videos to

> YouDescribe and add audio descriptions to videos. Of course this would be

> great for the visually disabled, but could also benefit

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> Joshua Hori

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> Accessible Technology Analyst

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> University of California, Davis

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> Student Disability Center

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> From: athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu

> [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Engle,

> Andrea June

> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 1:27 PM

> To: athen-list at u.washington.edu

> Subject: [Athen] captioning cost

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> Does anyone know of any cost effective captioning options for lecture

> captures? We are currently looking at options for this on our university.

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> Thank you,

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> Andrea Engle

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> Academic Accommodation Specialist

> Office of Academic Access

> The University of Toledo

> 2801 W. Bancroft St. MS#342

> Toledo, OH 43606-3390

> Phone: 419-530-4981

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