UNH Video Captioning: Comparing Paid and Free Options

Summary

This article outlines the differences between the fee-based professional captioning services available through UNH Student Accessibility Services (SAS) and the free captioning services that Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) offers.

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Summary

This article outlines the differences between the fee-based professional captioning services available through UNH Student Accessibility Services (SAS) and the free captioning services that Teaching & Learning Technologies (TLT) offers.

 

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Professional Services

  • Requested through UNH Student Accessibility Services (SAS)
  • The professional caption costs money.  It is paid for by central funds so the individual academic department isn't paying
  • Costs is $60 per hour
  • There are also some established turn around times, etc as part of the professional service.
  • The professional services can also do multiple languages
  • Typically used when a student in class has registered with SAS

 

Teaching and Learning Technologies Services

  • Machine captioning is done automatically and is ~80% accurate. Machine captioning may need to be cleaned up.
  • Request edits by submitting a ticket here:  TLT Captioning Service
  • The TLT caption cost is Free
  • Turnaround times are approximately +/- 48 hours
  • TLT can not caption foreign languages
  • TLT reserves the right to review and/or deny any captioning requests, in particular, due to any technical issues (audio quality, etc) that may inhibit our ability to caption. 
  • Captions will be ~99% accurate

 

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Article ID: 2369
Created
Thu 7/30/20 3:16 PM
Modified
Tue 2/11/25 12:44 PM
Applicable Institution(s):
University of New Hampshire (UNH)