About 3Play Media

3Play Media was founded in July 2007 by four MIT graduate students. Charged with the task of finding a lecture captioning solution we discovered that traditional methods are cost-prohibitive while computerized methods are nowhere near adequate. This inspired us to find affordable transcription solutions by leveraging technology. Drawing on research from the MIT Spoken Language Systems Group, we combined automatic speech recognition with human editing cleanup. This new transcription process was successfully reduced to practice and currently benefits more than 50 customers.

Our products and services are used in a broad range of applications, including online video archives, education, market research, enterprise search, conferencing, post production, corporate communications, video training, and recorded events. Although we are a technology company, above all, we are driven by our customers’ needs. Development of new products, refinement of existing products, and the overall vision of the company are guided by feedback from our customers.

Our offices are based in Cambridge, MA and all of our editors are native English speakers based in the U.S.