No matter where you turn, there always seems to be a debate about screen time for young children. Most research suggests that limiting screen time with children under the age of five is a smart idea, but that’s become increasingly…
Standard vs. Expanded Description: When Do You Need It?
Here at Captionmax, one of our favorite services is Description (often called audio description or video description). Description is the act of adding a secondary audio track that describes actions, settings, and other visual details so that blind and low-vision…
Eight Benefits of Webinar Captioning
Hosting a webinar is a great way to build authority, trust, and relationships in the modern world of business, especially in the era of COVID-19. They’re flexible, budget-friendly, and can give you a lot of insight into your branding and…
Realtime Spanish Captioning
Captionmax has been in the English realtime captioning business for over 30 years. Now, we’re able to deliver realtime Spanish captioning as well! If your program requires live Spanish-language captioning, we’re more than happy to work with you. We’re able…
Search Engine Optimization and Closed Captions
The primary goal of any content creator should be to share one’s work with the largest audience possible, but impressing viewers with only what’s on-screen may not be enough. To have the best chance at attracting a global audience, you…
Multi-Language Live Subtitling
Captionmax’s multi-language live subtitling workflow is capable of delivering real-time translation in dozens of languages to aid viewer comprehension and retention. WHY CAPTIONMAX? Our team of expert captioners ensures excellent translation Easy to scale: With Captionmax, we can scale to…
Common Subtitle/Prerecorded Closed Caption File Types
Captionmax can deliver closed captions and subtitles for prerecorded videos in any number of ways, but more often than not, our clients need what’s called a “sidecar” caption file. This means that we will be sending them a caption file…
What is CART Captioning?
Many great and important things happen in real-time: the spectacle of a baseball game, the exchanging of ideas in a video conference, and the dissemination of knowledge via video lectures, just to name a few. To ensure that all these…
Live Caption Spotlight: Social Media and Video Streaming Platforms
While there is no telling what the next big social media or video streaming platform will be – let alone what quirky name and spelling it will be forced to use because all the good ones were already taken –…
Live Caption Web Conferencing Spotlight: Zoom
There is perhaps no more popular platform for web conferencing in the world today than Zoom. But with great popularity comes a basic responsibility: to be accessible to all attendees. Fortunately, like Cisco’s Webex, Zoom offers a streamlined live captioning…