Tips & Tricks

From Traditional Live Captioning to AI-Powered Accessibility: A Squid Game Moment for Media

The Survival Game of Live Media Accessibility Just like Squid Game portrays a high-stakes battle for survival, the media industry is navigating a crucial transformation in live content accessibility. Despite its complexity, high costs, and time-consuming process, traditional live captioning dependent on hardware, per-channel licensing, and human captioners has long been the standard for broadcast TV and OTT platforms.‍

Feb 13, 2025

AI Captioning & Dubbing for Live News Using Secure Reliable Transport

In today's fast-paced world, live news broadcasting has transformed into a global phenomenon where real-time updates from around the world are accessible to viewers within seconds. However, the challenge of broadcasting live news across multiple languages while ensuring accessibility, speed, and quality has long been a hurdle. Enter technologies like Secure Reliable Transport and AI-driven captioning and dubbing tools, which together are reshaping the landscape of live news broadcasting. In particular, SyncWords’ GenAI-powered solutions provide groundbreaking ways to deliver accurate, accessible, and scalable multilingual live news content. This blog delves into the role of SRT in live news, the importance of AI captioning, the advantages of AI dubbing, and how these technologies work together to revolutionize the industry.

Jan 17, 2025

6 Reasons Why OTT Providers Should Caption & Translate Live Streams

In today’s fast-evolving OTT market, captioning and translating live video content are no longer optional - they are essential. The benefits of captioning and translation are wide-ranging, from ensuring compliance with legal requirements to expanding global reach, improving user engagement, and boosting discoverability.With advanced AI-driven tools like SyncWords, OTT providers can smoothly integrate captioning and translation services into their platforms, offering a scalable, cloud-based solution that enhances user experience while driving growth. By embracing these technologies, OTT platforms can not only stay ahead of the competition and also create a more inclusive, engaging, and global viewing experience for audiences

Dec 14, 2024

CHECKLIST: Effective Accessibility for Educational Institutions

One of the most important days in every student’s educational journey is commencement. It is a day that is as special to the student as it is to the institution of learning they will graduate from. If you are an educational institution, how accessible is your online stream of the commencement to those joining it? Here’s a handy checklist from SyncWords.

May 16, 2023

How to Add Captions to ON24 With SyncWords

In a previous blog post, team SyncWords gave you a step-by-step account of how to add captions to your Zoom session. We at SyncWords love simplifying your online world for you, so in this blog post we provide a rundown on how to add live captions and subtitles to your ON24 sessions.

Jul 26, 2022

How to Add Captions to Zoom With SyncWords

Platforms like Zoom helped the world collaborate and stay connected, and SyncWords was there to caption every key takeaway and emotion through the last couple of years. In this blog post, we take you through the process of adding captions to your Zoom session.

Jul 7, 2022

Take your Hybrid Event to the Next Level with Captioning and Translation

Many companies are figuring out ways to plan and execute events with both the in-person and virtual components working in tandem, known as “hybrid” events. As companies navigate the new normal of hybrid events, event planners look to merge the best of both worlds. For your benefit, a few tips on how you can transition from virtual-only events to hybrid events.

Sep 1, 2021

5 Reasons Why you Should Caption your Live Meetings

Let us discuss five reasons why you should caption your live meetings.

Aug 31, 2021

How to Host a Successful Hybrid Event

With the pandemic showing no signs of subduing, the events industry is evolving into a hybrid landscape melding in-person and virtual participation. In this article we discuss a checklist of the best practices to plan and organize a hybrid event.

Aug 11, 2021

Making a Difference to Your Zoom Event by Adding Real-Time Captions and Translations

Next time you have a Zoom event, providing captions and translations could spell the difference between just having an audience versus having a truly engaged audience.

Jun 16, 2021

Inclusion and Accessibility at Your Organization

Why Live Captions and Multilingual Translations Are a Must-Have For Your Virtual Meetings?

Mar 29, 2021

Three Simple Steps to Add Captions and Translations to your PheedLoop event

Mar 24, 2021

Live Subtitling For Virtual Events: So Easy With A Simple Widget!

If you’re streaming your next live virtual event to your web portal, integrate the subtitling widget, and let your international viewers be fully involved by viewing the captions in the language of their choice.

Mar 9, 2021

Making Your Vimeo Content Accessible via our SyncWords Integration

See how to link your Vimeo and SyncWords accounts and make your content accessible with the push of a few buttons.

Feb 2, 2021

How to Add Captions & Subtitles to Vimeo

A quick overview on how to upload captions or subtitles to your Vimeo account.

Aug 10, 2020

How to Add Captions & Subtitles to Facebook

A quick overview on how to upload captions or subtitles to your Facebook videos.

Jul 30, 2020