Tightrope Cablecast CBL-CAPTIONING-1000 Closed Captioning Service

The Cablecast Closed Captioning Service adds automatic speech-to-text captions to a station's programming, and this SKU is a prepaid 1000 hour block of that service. It handles live captioning of meetings and events as they air, and on-demand captioning of recorded video files in the Cablecast library, so a government or education channel can meet accessibility requirements without staffing a live stenographer for every session.

The service runs on Cablecast VIO and FLEX video servers as well as VIO Stream, and captions flow through the same Cablecast schedule and web interface used to manage programming. Stations can load custom vocabularies, such as local place names, board member names, and agency acronyms, so the engine transcribes the terms specific to their meetings more accurately. Hours draw down from the block as content is captioned.