Closed Captioning Blog

Nowadays, the pressure to outsource is considerable.  The market competition is driving prices down, leaving some companies with no other option, but to outsource for cheaper transcription rates. Many people have their ethical and political views on outsourcing overseas, but I am not going to discuss in today's article whether it is the "right" or "wrong" thing to do.  I want to share with you the reason why transcription ...

  Susanna’s Story: How Transcribing Christian Programming Gave Her a Better Life I believe the Lord gave me this opportunity to work at home, part-time, doing transcription work for Aberdeen Captioning. While I was on maternity leave, after the birth of my daughter in the spring of 2006, I was conflicted and stressed out thinking about how I was going to leave my precious newborn in a day care so ...

Caption editor This is an offline captioning term, referring to the person who takes the transcript and turns it into captions.  This person does the bulk of the captioning work.  They do the timing, placement, and research for the closed captions, using a professional captioning software.  Transcriber The person who creates a written representation of a program's audio to be used for captioning.  Transcribers can work remotely and e-mail the caption ...

A very important part of the captioning process is the initial transcription of the of the programming.  If the captioning company uses excellent transcribers, the quality of the captioning is automatically superior to companies that use subpar transcribers.  There are many ways the transcription can get completed.  Some companies choose to have the same person who transcribes the program also perform the editing, syncing, and placement of the ...

Transcription is the making of a verbatim copy of a spoken dialogue. Transcribers are professionals chosen for their linguistic skills and areas of expertise. Different captioning companies accept different types of formats.  For example, Aberdeen accepts multiple tape formats, DVDs, or digital files.  Transcripts can be delivered via e-mail, fax, or mail as a .txt file or any other word processing format you desire. Transcripts can be straight transcripts with only text ...