NCI enjoys an excellent record of performance for government clients! From House of Representatives , panels to school board meetings, accessible captions help keep ALL community members apprised of and involved in our collective system. Not only do government entities need real-time captioning for live events, but as technology grows so does the need for streaming videos, archived events, public service media, and more. The more advanced our society becomes so too does the need for accurate and affordable accessibility solutions. In addition, we help government entities stay compliant with ADA and section 508 accessibility regulations, which we believe is of great benefit for the nation.

Why Does Government Pair Well with Automated Captions?

Accessibility & Scalability in Scope:

• Accessibility is always our number one focus, and we love to help others achieve the most accessible version of themselves. Not only does this mean current programs that need captioning, it also means scaling accessibility to past and future content. Our Automated Captioning Solution, CaptionSentry, makes updating older programs to FCC and ADA compliant ones an easy and achievable task. Ensuring the public has closed caption access to all House and Senate proceedings that are broadcast on television or streamed on the Internet and providing captions for all web videos created by Member, Committee, and Leadership offices is imperative. We can help you make this happen.

• While we firmly believe accessibility to be a primary priority, we do recognize that economic barriers are real, especially when discussing not just one project but hundreds or even thousands. Scalability and affordability can be a balancing act. That’s an area where CaptionSentry shines. When you strip away overhead to the basic automated technology, you’re left with captions at a fraction of the cost without sacrificing quality. When we’re discussing larger Government jobs such as frequent council meetings, Educational and Government (PEG) channels, and leadership press conferences, the savings adds up.

Ideal Audio Environments

Automated captions are captions produced using speech recognition technology with no human intervention. This contrasts with the “human” approach in which trained captioners receive the audio, add punctuation/edits on the fly, and physically input the captions using their voice or stenography. With automatic caption generators, the software itself deciphers the audio and transmits captions accordingly. Caption accuracy reaches 94%-98% with CaptionSentry when ideal audio specification are met. Government, with speeches, classroom lectures, and panels where one person speaks at a time, is the ideal audio environment. There’s low or no background music to disorientate auto captions. There is not cross-talk with groups of people continuously speaking over each other. The system can easily home in and identify whose words to publish. This leads to the most accurate captions possible, taking advantage of automatic captioning strengths.

NCI’s Government Services include but are not limited to:

• Educational and Government (PEG) Channels

• Local, State and Federal Government Meetings  

• City and County Council Meetings  

• Public Education (classrooms, school board meetings, online fundraisers, etc)

• Leadership Press Conferences

• Committee Assignments & Briefings

• Multi-Media Presentations  

• Training Videos   
  
  

Learn More About CaptionSentry

• CaptionSentry Overview

• CaptionSentry Q&A

• Automated Captioning Misconceptions

Getting Started

If you think our Automated Captioning Solution would work well for your Government programs, please reach out!