This webinar covers legal compliance, the creation of live captions, tips for the best audio quality, and video player compatibility, as well as an overview of post-event video accessibility tips.

1. Toolkit for Live
Captioning Online
Video
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Georgia
McGoldrick
3Play Media

2. On today’s agenda...
What are live captions? 🔬
Strategies for streaming remote events and meetings 🎥
Best practices for streaming live captions ✍
What do you do with your live captions after? 🖥
Why should you caption? 👍
Who is 3Play Media? 🏢
Q&A

3. What are Live
Captions?

4. Live Captioning
In real time
For live events like
webinars or meetings
automatic or
stenographer
Slight latency
Computer processing or
stenographer typing

5. Terms to Know
CART
Computer Assisted Real-Time
Translation
ASR
Automated Speech Recognition

6. How are you using live video?

7. Creating a Strategy
for Streaming Remote
Events and Meetings

8. Creating a Strategy for Remote Live
Events and Meetings
Giving notice
Choosing a
platform
Host a training

9. Giving Notice Information
Send reminders for the meeting,
time zone checker, software
requirements
Public Calendar
Publish a calendar with meetings
and information on how to join
Test connection
Allow attendees test their
connections beforehand.

10. Choosing a
Platform
Is it accessible?
Can you live caption? Is it
screen-reader and keyboard
accessible?
Is it secure?
How do they use your data and
attendee data?
Participation features
Can attendees ask questions? Can
you add polls?

11. Host a Training
Schedule a
walkthrough
Schedule a practice to ensure all
features work
Talk about engagement
tactics
How can you make the presentation
more engaging for your audience?
How to live caption
Make sure your captioning
integration is working

12. How to Create
Accessible
Presentations
Thursday, March 26th at 2PM ET
Register: bit.ly/2Q3ZqSV

13. Let’s talk quality.

14. Caption Quality
Matters
80% - 95% accurate
Ranges depending on automatic vs.
human and ‘live’ environment
Latency
Live captions typically appear with a
slight latency between the spoken
words and the captioned output
No governing body for
live captioning

15. Best Practices for Live Captioning
Strong Network
Connection
Good Quality
Audio
Little to No
Background
Noise
Single Speaker
Clear Speech and
Pronunciation

16. So, how do I add
captions to live events?

17. Most meeting, streaming, and webinar
platforms allow you to add external
captioning to events.

19. What platforms do you host your live
streams on?

20. What happens if my live platform doesn’t
support live captioning?

21. Urls
Link to an external URL for live
captions if your player doesn’t
support it.

22. What should you do
post-event?

23. Are Live Captions
Good Enough?
State of ASR Report
Dive into the findings at
3playmedia.com
Humans are crucial
Especially if you care about quality,
SEO, and branding
99% Accuracy
Live automatic captions range from
80%-95%

24. DIY
Edit the transcript yourself,
then convert to the
appropriate caption format to
upload 3rd Party
Submit your recording to a 3rd
party captioner

25. Why should you
caption?

26. ACCESSIBILITY
A11y

27. 41% of videos are incomprehensible
without sound or captions.

28. You’ll get more
website traffic
16% increase
In revenue earned by web pages with
video transcripts compared to those
without transcripts
135%
Greater organic traffic for videos
with captions according to
Facebook
85%
Of Facebook videos are watched with
the sound off

29. Captions improve brand recall, verbal
memory, and behavioral intent.

30. Video accessibility also benefits students
98.6%
Of students find
captions helpful
65%
Of students use
captions to help
them focus
75%
Of students that
use captions said
they use them as
a learning aid

32. Laws Around
Captioning
Rehabilitation Act
Section 504 & 504
Americans with
Disabilities Act
WCAG

35. Captions, Subtitles, Transcription, & Audio
Description
Closed captioning
& Transcription
Subtitles &
Translation
Audio
Description
Live automatic
captioning

37. Goal: Make Accessible Video Easy
Online Account
System
Fast & Reliable
Turnaround
Automated
Workflows
One Click Video
Search Tools
Audio
Description

38. 3Play Live
Automatic
Captioning
Automatic Solution
80%-95% accuracy
Integrations & APIs
Schedule via 3Play Media
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services on that transcript

39. Questions about Live?
livecaptioning@3playmedia.com

40. Questions?
Comments?