TV audiences think closed captioning of television programs is important, but feel the service needs improvement, a new study has found. The NCI Foundation, the public service, educational outreach, ...

Video conferencing service Zoom announced on Wednesday that it will begin rolling out automatic closed captioning this fall in an effort to make the platform more accessible. “As part of our ...

Like subtitles, open captions give a deaf or hard-of-hearing viewer access to information contained on an audio track. The non-profit Captioned Media Program provides free-loan open-captioned media to ...

There are many reasons to caption online videos. Accessibility compliance is probably one of the most common, especially for schools and organizations subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act or ...

Tulane University is simplifying the process of captioning its video and audio content. The institution worked with video management provider ShareStream to launch a new closed-captioning service that ...

Captioning for television has come a long way since it was first introduced in 1972 when the most popular cooking show of the time, “The French Chef” with Julia Child, was captioned. The idea of ...

BxVideo, a leader for live-stream video services and products, today announced EZLive Caption, a subscription-based web-service that automatically transcribes, translates and captions live streaming ...

Activists are expressing concerns about the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) push to adopt a new phone system for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, saying the services may not meet ...

IBM Global Services announced a new service Monday to provide automatic captioning of Web conferences and other online audio for the hearing impaired. Web sites that subscribe to the service would ...