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Automated Captioning Simplified

With no confusing toolkits or overwhelming setups, CaptionSentry produces truly high-quality automated captions for any screen with minimal configuration.

As the captioning company that helped create live and prerecorded closed captioning, and led the way in real-time caption services with steno-captioners and voice writers, we know captioning.

The National Captioning Institute – on a mission to deliver truly accessible media.

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Intelligent Architecture

 
 

Versatile Features

 
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Enjoy flexible configurations.

Choose a configuration that best fits your needs—whether a fully cloud-based setup, on-premise hardware, or a customized hybrid solution.

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Feel confident.

Fail-safe mode activates automatic captions if a human captioner stops sending data, ensuring seamless coverage.

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Access everyone.

Automated Captioning in same-language available in 45+ languages.

Automated Translation offered for over 800 language combinations.

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Share or save.

Easily export and download program files in a variety of formats.

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  • Schedule a live demo or chat, and an NCI team member will reach out to you. We understand that each setup is unique, and we will help match one of our CaptionSentry service tiers to fit your specific needs.

  • Let NCI manage your scheduling and wordlists or use our online portal to do so yourself — your choice! Or try CaptionSentry OnDemand with no prior scheduling.

    Your NCI team member will walk you through all options.

  • As part of NCI’s ongoing mission of media accessibility, we listen to our community. While having captions avoid all graphics might enhance some visuals, those that rely on closed captioning find hunting for caption placement on an ever-moving screen to be unnecessarily distracting.

  • With over 40 years experience in media accessibility solutions, including NCI team members currently on the FCC’s Disability Advisory Committee (DAC), we provide knowledge and experience to guide clients through compliance.

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Let’s Collaborate! Schedule a CaptionSentry demo and/or speak to an NCI team member:

 
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CaptionSentry Multi-Fluency Options:

 

Automatic Captioning in Same Language:

Arabic, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Interlingua, Italian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Mandarin, Marathi, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Uyghur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh.

Automatic Translation:

There are currently over 800 possible combinations between the following languages: 

  • Bulgarian 

  • Chinese* 

  • Czech 

  • Danish 

  • Dutch 

  • English** 

  • Estonian 

  • Finnish 

  • French 

  • German 

  • Greek 

  • Hungarian 

  • Indonesian 

  • Italian 

  • Japanese 

  • Korean 

  • Latvian 

  • Lithuanian 

  • Norwegian*** 

  • Polish 

  • Portuguese**** 

  • Romanian 

  • Russian 

  • Slovak 

  • Slovenian 

  • Spanish 

  • Swedish 

  • Turkish 

  • Ukrainian 

* 
Chinese (both traditional and simplified) detected as source languages; 
Chinese (simplified only) available as a target language. 

** 
English (unspecified variant) available as a source language; 
English (American) and English (British) available as alternative target languages, when source language is Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish or Ukrainian; 
English (unspecified variant) available as a target language, when source language is Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Slovak, or Slovenian. 

*** 

Norwegian (bokmål only) available as a source and target language. 

**** 
Portuguese (all Portuguese varieties mixed) available as a source language; 
Portuguese (all Portuguese varieties excluding Brazilian Portuguese) and Portuguese (Brazilian) available as alternative target languages.