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From: Marissa Sapega
Date: Sep 2, 2020 6:39AM

Hi Itzel,
It's an independent third party service. You upload your videos to the platform and purchase captions, audio transcription, subtitles, etc., whatever you need, and they provide the output in a variety of file formats. Very fast, great customer service, and highly accurate in my experience with them.

Thank you,

Marissa

From: "Itzel McClaren (US - IFS)" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 6:11 PM
To: Marisa Sapega < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Cc: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >, "Andrea L. Dietrich" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Captioning tools with high accuracy

Thanks Marissa, I will add Rev.com to my list of options to explore. How do you use it? Is rev integrated with your systems?

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 5:00 PM Marissa Sapega < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:
We use Rev.com as our paid service.

Thank you,

Marissa

On 9/1/20, 5:40 PM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Itzel McClaren (US - IFS) via WebAIM-Forum" < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >> wrote:

We can't use Youtube. Yes, we know that we'll need someone to edit the file
but we'd like an option that would reduce that time. And yes, accents are a
big problem.

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 4:24 PM Andrea L. Dietrich < <EMAIL REMOVED> <mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >>
wrote:

> The best I've found is honestly YouTube. I have a YouTube channel set up
> that defaults everything to private videos, and I use it pretty exclusively
> for autocaptioning. It's a very helpful tool for getting a good "first
> pass" on a video that doesn't have a transcript. I've gotten nearly 100%
> accuracy in the text with some videos that have particularly clear speakers
> with a "neutral" American or British accent. Even so, it needs an edit
> afterwards to be properly accessible. I haven't found anything that doesn't
> require editing after the initial pass -- if anyone knows of a tool like
> that please share, because I would love to hear about it too!!
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Andi :)
>
>