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From: Poore-Pariseau, Cindy
Date: Apr 13, 2011 9:39AM

Can you share the costs (approx) for the captioning service? Also, have you found Google's service any more accurate than YouTube's? Has anyone else used Google's services?

Cindy Poore-Pariseau
Disability Specialist

Bristol Community College
777 Elsbree Street
Fall River, MA 02720
508.678.2811, ext. 2470
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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Keith Parks
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Transcription/captioning


On Apr 12, 2011, at 6:43 AM, Palmer, Becca wrote:

> I am seeking information as to what services are offered by various institutions of higher education in the way of transcription and captioning of audio and video . Our university offers these services, however, I would like to get an idea of how many colleges or universities offer such services and how they are funded; is the service institutionally funded or are there any fees associated with those services (do the colleges or departments pay or is it the responsibility of the instructor to cover the cost, etc.)?

A few years ago our statewide university system had a contract with Automatic Sync Technologies for captioning services. Each campus handled it a bit differently. Individual offices/departments could create their own account, and each department had to pay for the services they used.

Lately we've been encouraged to use Google/YouTube's free auto transcription/captioning function as a method to get transcripts/captions.
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