Education
Closed captioning services & tools to enhance learning and exceed accessibility requirements

Integrated Captioning Services for Lecture Capture

Education

Online video is changing the landscape of education, training, and eLearning. Whether it’s inside or outside the classroom, educators and students have come to depend on online video as a powerful tool for teaching and learning. 3Play Media was founded in response to a growing need for affordable high quality lecture captions. We understand that while online video presents great opportunities, it also creates formidable challenges, such as accessibility, complex vocabulary, and searchability. We help educational institutions, companies, and organizations by providing cost-effective technological solutions for high quality, time-synchronized transcription and captioning services, as well as web tools for video search and navigation. Our customers, such as MIT, Yale, and Georgia Tech, use our products and services for recorded lectures and other media archives. We’ve also partnered with the leading providers of lecture capture systems to automate workflow and simplify integration.

3Play Media’s Solution for Education:

  • Cost-effective, high quality transcription and captioning services done in the USA by professionally trained transcriptionists
  • >99% transcription accuracy, even in cases of poor audio quality, multiple speakers, accents, and difficult content
  • Support for a wide range of transcript and caption output formats
  • Direct integration with leading lecture capture systems and online video platforms
  • Powerful tools to search video down to the spoken word and create clips simply by highlighting the text
  • Embeddable and customizable interactive transcript equipped with clipping and auto-translation features
  • Flexible and secure file transfer and workflow options: Direct upload, FTP, link pasting, API support, direct import from compatible systems
  • Self-service online account system with powerful search, editing, and publishing tools
  • Indefinite transcript storage to search and reuse old archives
  • Enterprise-grade platform supports multiple departments, administrator privileges, flexible billing and payment options

Benefits of Captioning & Transcription for Education:

  • Accessibility for hearing-impaired users. More than 28 million people in the US have hearing impairments. Transcripts and captions provide an effective solution for audio and video content.
  • Compliance with Section 508 of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which requires accessibility for audio/video content. The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act has further expanded regulations for online media.
  • Accessibility for ESL students. Students with English as a second language often outnumber native English speakers. Transcripts and captions help ESL students to understand audio/video content better.
  • Comprehension and retention. Closed captioning has been shown to improve the online learning experience and increase comprehension and retention of information.
  • Captions and transcripts provide the flexibility to use audio/video content while in noisy or sound-sensitive environments, like a library.
  • Interactive navigation lets users skim through a transcript and click on any word to jump to that exact point in the video.
  • Video search down to the spoken word enables users to search within a video or across an entire media library.
  • Reusability. Transcribed audio/video content can be found and repurposed. Otherwise, it’s lost.
  • Video clipping. Educators and students can create video clips simply by highlighting the spoken text. Clips from multiple sources can be combined into playlists and shared.
  • Video SEO and discoverability. Transcribed media is indexed more thoroughly and rewarded by search engines.
  • Ability to translate to foreign languages using transcription for the source.

Clipmaker Application

Clipmaker is a powerful video search and editing application that is available as a Web-based service to all 3Play Media users. Clipmaker lets you search across your transcribed video (or audio) files and quickly create clips by highlighting the spoken words. You can combine clips from multiple files into lists that can be saved, printed, or exported. Clipmaker can even scan your media library and automatically generate clips that contain specific keywords. Learn more.

Clipmaker video tutorial Watch the video tutorial “Clipmaker – Overview”