Live Captioning: How it's done

CaptionMax's realtime writers access the live transmission of your program through a satellite feed and/or a phone-line audio hookup. Our skilled CaptionMax realtime writers use court reporting keyboards so they can type up to 275 words a minute to accurately transcribe and transmit simultaneous captions at the time of broadcast or transmission.

The writer sends the captions via modem to encoders at the uplink facility. Every realtime captioning session is closely monitored throughout the feed from one of CaptionMax's three facilities. CaptionMax's technical experts provide quality control throughout all links in the captioning chain with only one goal in mind - to produce work that will be a point of pride for your program.

See a diagram of how it's done.

Check out samples of our work.