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2020 Accessibility update

Updated accessibility laws in the UK, US and Canada: implications for new online video and audio  Accessibility laws are evolving, and that means many companies need to act when it comes to captioning their video and audio for both video on-demand and live streaming.  Find out more below. UK public sector organisations required to make online content accessible September 23, 2020, marked the deadline for all public sector bodies in the United Ki...

Did you know: you now have even more control over your burnt-in subtitles?

Pro rendering/burnt-in subtitles with CaptionHub Did you know that you can now get even more control over your export burnt-in subtitles (open captions) directly from CaptionHub? Pro rendering is available for Enterprise and Standard accounts. You can now upload your custom and house fonts, control font face, size, background colour, transparency and outline! If you'd like to try it out, please ask for us to enable it on your account today. If ...

The new CaptionHub Memsource integration

Why we developed our integration with Memsource Subtitle localisation is hard.  We all vividly remember the bad old days of Excel spreadsheets, version control hell, last minute edit changes, specialist captioners, feedback via multiple channels, client review, tracking approvals – you name it.  And it’s compounded by scale, of course. The process outlined  above is bad enough for one language; it’s exponentially worse when you’re working on twe...

VICE Selects CaptionHub for International Video Localisation

CaptionHub, the market-leading video & audio captioning platform, announced its latest broadcast and media client, VICE, the leading global youth media company reaching audiences in over 80 international territories across mobile, digital and linear channels. After a proof of concept phase spanning 2018, that involved rigorous internal testing and a technical integration into VICE’s production systems, VICE has rolled-out CaptionHub to its Europe...

CaptionHub Partners with Brightcove for Online AI Video Subtitling

Last month at London Tech Day, CaptionHub, the market-leading video & audio captioning platform, announced its integration with Brightcove, the leading provider of cloud services for video. Brightcove, which powers video distribution and management for some of the world’s most popular brands, publishers, and broadcasters, will enable mutual clients to use CaptionHub’s AI-enabled collaboration platform to publish original language and translated ...