CaptionKeeper Recycles TV Captions for Web Streaming

WGBH's National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) announces the availability of software which enables closed captions created for broadcast and video to migrate to the Web.

CaptionKeeper™ software automatically converts line-21 captions created for television or video into Web-streaming formats. The software, now available for purchase, uses existing closed-caption data to create caption text suitable for live or archived multimedia presentations via RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and QuickTime Player formats.

CaptionKeeper can be used to:

• Repurpose existing captions of live or pre-recorded television programs for Web streaming
• Repurpose captions of videos archived by universities, libraries and other public and private organizations for online use (distance learning, video kiosks, indexed archives)
• Meet Federal requirements (Section 508, 1194.24-C) by transferring captioned training or educational video content to Web-streaming formats
• Make multimedia content searchable by using captioning text as metadata

Posted by Chris Hodge at November 2, 2004 02:21 PM | TrackBack | Links to this post
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