Closed Captioning Services for Broadcast, Streaming & Pre-Recorded Video
Get closed captioning services from the industry's most reliable language services agency. With us, you are guaranteed timely, reliable, and highly accurate captioning services at a price you can afford.
Captioned over 189,000 minutes.
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Excellent service, very responsive and great communication. Consistent high quality in translation and caption/subtitle creation, delivered on schedule.
Berti
Easy communication with service provider and 2-3 day turn around time for a closed subtitle/caption project for a 10 min video at very competitive prices. Would recommend and use their services again.
Thomas
I had a wonderful support experience working with Adriana M. She spent a whole morning helping me coordinate and process a caption/subtitling order, and I was able to meet an urgent deadline because of her assistance.
Compliance
Closed Captions vs Subtitles vs SDH
| Type | Purpose | Content included |
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| Closed Captions | Accessibility | Dialogue, speaker identification, sound effects, and audio cues |
| Subtitles | Language translation | Translated dialogue without accessibility sound cues (subtitling services) |
| SDH Captions | Accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing viewers | Dialogue, speaker identification, sound effects, and music descriptions |
Online Closed Captioning Services from Qualified Experts
At Vanan Services, we help you convey the message in your videos through text to the target market swiftly and accurately at unbelievably affordable service rates. Our goal is to fulfill all of your closed captioning needs under one brand that assures high quality and a timely delivery every time!
All dialogues, sounds, and even non-speech audio in the video are time-synchronized with the text in more than 100 languages. As a standards-compliant agency, we only work with the best native talent in the industry to translate speech to text and deliver FCC & ADA-compliant captions in over 100 languages.
Your project is assigned to a dedicated account manager who oversees the rigorous quality check system that delivers 100% customer satisfaction.
Worry not about the security and confidentiality of your information, as we have that taken care of through our data encryption and non-disclosure agreements. Contact our 24/7 multilingual customer support today for a free quote at 1-800-230-7918! English closed captions start at $1 per minute; foreign-language captioning starts at $7 per minute. See our rates & turnaround table.
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224 W 35th St #1200-8,
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All About Our Professional Closed Captioning Service
Closed captioning unlike open captions, will display the dialogue, sound effects, speaker identifications, voice tone indication, music denotations, and other relevant video & audio nuances as text on a video screen, television, or any other visual display medium, as it goes beyond merely converting speech to text.
Broadcast captioning services ensure that television and other broadcast media have accurate, synchronized captions that comply with industry standards for accessibility.
Closed captions need to be accurate, time-synchronized, and complete with the option of either turning them on or off. Their positioning and font should be precise too, so that they don't block the content displayed on the screen.
Our post-production captioning services help content creators seamlessly integrate accurate captions into completed video projects while maintaining consistency across all media formats.
Adding captions to video content is a mandatory legal requirement in many countries, like the United States, as the law ensures that broadcasters, online video makers, producers, businesses, and individuals utilise them to build a reputation for providing accessible content.
At Vanan Services, we have invested in our team, processes, and technology to meet unmatched quality standards in the captioning industry to ensure your video content reaches as many people as possible.
Our Captioning Process: 100% Human Captioners
Human Transcription
Professional native-language captioners transcribe every word, sound effect, and music cue. No automatic speech recognition is used.
Upload Your File Now →Caption Editing & Sync
Human editors time-code every line and verify synchronization, speaker identification, punctuation, and placement.
Vanan 3-Pass QA
A senior reviewer checks timing, completeness, and Word Error Rate (WER) before delivery.
Start your order →Every caption is created and verified by human captioners. We never deliver machine-generated captions.
✓ Response within minutes ✓ 100% acceptance guarantee ✓ Free revisions if needed
Certified Closed Captioning Services Across New York
Think about a busy NYC training video or a short film in Brooklyn. When captions land at the exact moment, your audience stays locked in. New York is built on nonstop media, and captions are part of how content succeeds here. In a city where film and TV create about $81.6 billion in economic output and support around 185,000 jobs, producers can’t risk unclear or late captions.That’s why our certified time-synchronized captions stay perfectly matched to every word and sound.
NYC is also one of the most language-rich places on earth, with 800+ languages spoken across the boroughs.Our closed captioning services in New York help you reach multilingual viewers and people watching in noisy subways, busy cafés, or quiet offices. Our pre-recorded captioning is built for this pace, with fast turnaround so your videos go out on schedule.
If you combine your video content with printed guides, our book typesetting services complement captions perfectly, keeping your branding consistent.
If you’re a filmmaker, educator, healthcare team, marketer, or legal professional, you’ll want captions that look right, too. Custom caption styling lets you keep brand tone clear and readable, while staying scalable for various content types like ads, courses, depositions, and trainings. Our captioners are well-trained to deliver accurate results for New York audiences.
NYC’s Introduction 138/Local Code §23-1006 establishes ASL public service announcements with accompanying captions on LinkNYC kiosks and other city ad structures, showing how captions are becoming a standard for civic communication.Our captioners create clear, compliant captions for PSAs, government videos, and public campaigns. Stop by our New York office, conveniently located 0.4 miles from Penn Station and roughly 0.6 miles from Madison Square.
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Various Types of Video Captioning Services That We Offer
Our guarantee at Vanan Services is to provide video captioning services that meet the FCC & ADA compliance standards with 99+% accuracy within agreed deadlines at the most affordable service rates.
With the help of native professionals worldwide, we can integrate text into videos for a wide array of languages including the most highly demanded English, Italian, German, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Arabic, Korean, and more.
With our online and offline closed captioning services, we serve a wide variety of industries such as:
Marketing & Advertising Academic & eLearning Media & Entertainment TV & Film Webcast & Documentary YouTube & VimeoClosed vs Open Captions
Closed captions can be turned on or off by viewers and are the standard for accessibility. Open captions are permanently burned into the video and remain visible at all times.
Pop-On, Roll-Up & Paint-On Captions
Pop-on captions appear as complete text blocks and are the standard for pre-recorded video, films, and streaming content. Roll-up captions display lines that move upward, used mainly for live or single-speaker programming. Paint-on captions appear progressively, letter by letter, where precise broadcast timing is required. We deliver all three styles to spec.
Broadcast & Post-Production Captioning
Offline captioning for pre-recorded TV programming, streaming, corporate, and educational media. See our broadcast captioning and post-production pages.
We accept video files in multiple formats and deliver in customized formats that include SDH, SRT, SBV, STL, SCC, SUB, SMI, SAMI, WebVTT, QuickText, RealText, and many more. Engage us today, and we will customize your preferred output. For the most professional video captioning services, get in touch with us.
SDH Captioning Services
We deliver SDH (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing) for streaming platforms like Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+, plus entertainment, education, and corporate video. SDH captions carry speaker identification, sound-effect cues, and music descriptions in the subtitle track itself, helping deaf and hard of hearing viewers follow every audio detail and meeting the specifications streaming platforms set for delivered content.
File Formats
CEA-608 & CEA-708 Broadcast Standards
CEA-608, also known as EIA-608, is the legacy caption standard developed for analog television, transmitted on line 21 of the broadcast signal. CEA-708 is the US digital television caption standard, supporting advanced styling, caption positioning, and multiple caption services. We author and deliver both, including SCC and MCC files that carry 608/708 data for FCC-regulated broadcast, plus SMPTE-TT and IMSC1 timed-text files for file-based broadcast and OTT interchange.
Caption Placement & Reading Speed
Captions are carefully positioned to avoid covering on-screen text, lower-thirds, and speaker faces. Timing follows platform reading-speed guidelines, typically 17–20 characters per second (about 160–180 words per minute), plus characters-per-line limits. Placement and synchronization are two of the FCC's four caption-quality factors.
Affordable Video Captioning Services With Premium Benefits
Closed Captioning Rates & Turnaround
Closed captioning is priced per minute of source video, based on length, language, and delivery requirements, and human-produced to a 99+% accuracy standard. English captions start at $1/min; foreign-language captioning starts at $7/min. No setup fee, no minimum order. Your exact quote is confirmed in writing within minutes.
| Service | Starting From | What It Is |
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| English closed captions (SRT / VTT / SCC) | $1.00/min | Same-language, time-coded caption file for YouTube, Vimeo, LMS, or broadcast |
| Burned-in captions (open captions) | $5.00/min | Captions permanently embedded in the video, ideal for social and viewers on mute |
| Foreign-language captioning (same-language, non-English) | $7.00/min | Time-coded captions in the video's own language, across 100+ languages |
| Subtitle translation (different language) | $11.20/min | Transcription plus translation bundled. See our subtitling services |
Turnaround
Delivery time depends on file duration and language specification. The tiers below apply to English and top major languages, with or without a script; longer files and rare-language projects receive an exact delivery date, confirmed in writing with your quote.
| Tier | Delivery | Rate Impact |
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| Standard | 2–3 business days | Base rate |
| Rush | 24–48 hours | +50% |
| Same-day | Shorter projects, on request | Quoted |
Files only a few minutes long can often deliver in less than 24 hours on rush. Exact time is quoted per specification.
Ways to lower your cost: provide an accurate transcript, choose a standalone SRT/VTT file instead of burned-in captions, pick standard turnaround, or bundle 60+ minutes for volume pricing.
Ballpark Examples
| Project | Service | Typical Starting Cost |
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| 10-minute video, English captions | Closed captions (SRT/VTT) | from ~$10 |
| 30-minute video, captions burned into the file | Burned-in (open) captions | from ~$150 |
| 20-minute video, Spanish-language captions | Foreign-language captioning | from ~$140 |
Illustrative only, based on clean single-speaker audio and standard turnaround. Your exact quote is confirmed in writing within minutes.
Not sure yet? Start with a free captioning trial. Upload a short clip and see the quality first.
Over 430 million people worldwide, more than 1 in 20, live with disabling hearing loss, a number the WHO projects to approach 700 million by 2050. To expand your reach, consider combining video captioning with our translation services in New York, ensuring seamless multilingual support and accessibility.
Video captions, both closed and open captions, are developed with the purpose of catering to deaf and hard of hearing audiences, helping them follow the full content of the video.
Captions help hearing viewers too. Captioning helps people focus and understand the media content better, allowing people who work in sound-sensitive or noisy environments to enjoy the video without missing a thing.
Our YouTube captioning services can elevate your video content, making it both more accessible and optimized for better engagement.
As the United States’ most preferred video captioning services company, we continue to be trusted by thousands of clients in Vermont, Downey, Pomona, Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Brownsville, Maine, Rhode Island, California, and in all major cities in the US and the world over. We serve educational institutions, corporations, government entities, individuals, etc.
Compliance Standards That We Meet
| Standard | What It Requires |
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| FCC 47 CFR §79.1 | Our captions are produced to meet the FCC's four caption-quality factors (accuracy, synchronicity, completeness, and placement) required for US broadcast programming. |
| ADA Title II & Title III | State and local government entities face ADA Title II digital-accessibility compliance deadlines in 2026–2027; Title III covers businesses open to the public. Captioning pre-recorded video is a core requirement of both. |
| Section 508 & WCAG 2.1 AA | Our captions are produced to WCAG 2.1 AA, including Success Criterion 1.2.2 (captions for prerecorded media). WCAG success criteria are the technical benchmark Section 508 references for federal and federally funded organizations. |
| CVAA & the European Accessibility Act (EAA) | Programming shown on US TV with captions must remain captioned online under the CVAA (21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act); the European Accessibility Act (EAA) extends accessibility obligations across the EU market. |
Media Captioning Services for Business and Personal Use
With globalization, the world seems to be constantly sinking into one small marketplace. However, digital media has been expanding and achieving more mobility than ever. According to Promo, people stream nearly 40% of video content on their mobile devices so that they can watch them from anywhere and not just from the comforts of their living rooms.
This means that content is competing for views, and with nearly half of the viewers relying on digital, you can't underestimate the value captions bring to your audience.
Through our high-quality captioning services, corporations and individuals alike increase video accessibility and engagement globally. At Vanan Services every client is prioritised to ensure that your video is never out of reach.
Many clients bundle transcription and closed captioning services in one order. We deliver the transcript and the synchronized caption files together from a single workflow.
Whether you're producing a film and need reliable film captioning service, we can help you enhance your audience's experience.
So, whether you need closed captioning services for your website content, broadcast, news, YouTube channel, video files documentation, webinars, documentaries, lectures, movies, online classes, Netflix, video games, films, Vimeo, dramas, advertisement videos, Amazon, or product tutorials, we got you!
Are Professional Video Closed Captioning Services Important?
Thanks to our captioning services, millions of deaf and hard-of-hearing people worldwide can access and enjoy media content.
Thanks to captioning, you never have to miss out on your favourite program just because you are in a noisy or no-audio environment.
It is a legal requirement in some countries, like the US, where streamed media include captions for deaf and hard of hearing audiences. Otherwise, you risk accessibility-related legal complaints.
Adding captions makes it possible for search engine spiders to crawl to your content thereby increasing its searchability, engagement, and ranking on search engines.
Closed captions can come in handy for people struggling with reading skills or learning a new language.
We Offer the Best Closed Captioning Services For Businesses
Vanan Services has the most competitive service rates in the industry, with discounts on offer for bulk orders, repeat clients, and some specific industries like academic, NGO, and healthcare.
When it comes to language services, we are your one-stop shop. Besides closed captions, we also provide subtitling, voice-over, translation, audio description, and transcription services customizable to your special instructions.
Our friendly, multilingual support team is available 24/7 to offer you free quotes and a quicker service. All projects are delivered within time and our super rush services are available for urgent ones.
At Vanan Services, we use highly trained and experienced native experts to provide captions through 100% human efforts with 99+% accuracy and high on-screen synchronicity in any major language.
As a quality-focused company, we guarantee timely, high-quality captions that are FCC & ADA compliant every time!
Your video files and data are safe and secure with us. We have an encrypted system, a secure payment mode, and an NDA to guarantee that.
Contact us now to get started with your content!
How Vanan Compares on What Buyers Check
| What Buyers Compare | Typical Providers | Vanan |
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| Price for English captions | Commonly $1.50–$2.00/min | From $1.00/min |
| Foreign-language captioning | English/Spanish only | 100+ languages, from $7/min |
| Accuracy | Auto or lightly reviewed | 99+% guarantee, 100% human captioners, never machine-generated |
| Compliance | General claims | FCC §79.1, ADA, Section 508, WCAG 2.1 AA, CVAA, EAA, with SCC/MCC broadcast delivery |
| Turnaround | Varies | Standard 2–3 business days · Rush 24–48h (short files even faster) · same-day available (varies by duration & language); fixed quotes, unlimited revisions |
| Track record | N/A | 16+ years · 189,000+ minutes captioned · 4.8★ from 2,456+ reviews |
Comprehensive Audio Captioning Services Tailored to Your Needs
We provide highly accurate audio captioning services that capture every spoken word with unmatched precision. Our captions are culturally sensitive, respecting diverse audiences and avoiding misinterpretations. With our multilingual audio captioning services, we cater to global audiences, ensuring accessibility for all languages and regions.
Alongside captioning, our audio description services are designed to deliver rich, descriptive narration that complements visual storytelling across all genres.
We provide fully customizable captioning solutions to match your specific style and content preferences. Whether it's live events or recorded content, our real-time captioning services ensure immediate accessibility for your audience. We guarantee secure and confidential captioning services, safeguarding your sensitive content at every stage of the process.
Our subtitling service is designed to make your content accessible to a wider audience by offering precise translations and synchronizations for different languages.
Why Choose Our Audio Captioning Services?
We provide captions compatible with all major file formats and video platforms, ensuring seamless integration into your projects. Time synchronization is key to enhancing the viewer experience, and our captions perfectly align with your audio. Our expertise extends to managing challenging audio, including background noise, unclear speech, and overlapping dialogue.
Our team also offers composition typesetting services to complement your media projects, ensuring every caption fits perfectly within the visual layout.
Quality assurance is at the core of what we do. We provide captions with over 99+% accuracy, supported by rigorous quality checks, including proofreading and editing. Our New York Captioning Services team specializes in high-accuracy captions even for fast-paced or technical audio recordings, meeting the needs of media-rich environments. Our expert human captioners deliver results that consistently exceed expectations.
For urgent projects, we provide rush and same-day delivery without compromising quality.
Certified captioning services are available for educational, professional, and legal purposes, giving you the documentation and assurance you need.
Our captions are designed to enhance viewer engagement with interactive features such as clickable timestamps. Free revisions and post-delivery support ensure your satisfaction with the final product.
Scalability is our strength. We provide services that handle projects of all sizes, from small tasks to bulk orders. Our expertise spans industries such as education, entertainment, healthcare, and corporate sectors. Our fast, eco-friendly, and fully digital delivery processes make us a trusted partner for your audio captioning needs.
As an audio translation company, we specialize in translating audio to captions in various languages, helping you communicate effectively in global markets.
Customizable Captions for Every Platform and Industry
We provide fully customizable captions tailored to your branding and audience needs. Whether you need adjustable font sizes, colors, or background transparency, our captions ensure seamless readability across all platforms.
Our captions also include speaker identification and sound effects such as [music playing], [laughter], and [applause], making your videos more engaging and accessible.
Whether you need captions or dubbing services, we ensure your content remains top-notch across every platform and medium.
In addition to general media captioning, we specialize in industry-specific solutions for legal, healthcare, corporate training, and academic content. Our captions meet the official standards required for court proceedings, government use, and compliance with industry regulations.
Our enterprise-level captioning services are designed to handle bulk orders, large video libraries, and automated workflows. Whether you're a media house, e-learning provider, or corporate organization, our system ensures high-volume captioning without delays.
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YouTube: SCC, TTML, WebVTT (or direct upload)
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Vimeo: WebVTT, SCC
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Netflix / Prime Video / Disney+ / Hulu: SDH tracks to each platform's delivery specification, including the Netflix Timed Text Style Guide (TTML/IMSC1)
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LMS / SCORM: caption files packaged for e-learning platforms
Industries We Serve
Broadcast & TV: FCC-compliant captions for pre-recorded programming
Higher Education & E-Learning: ADA-compliant lecture and course captions
Government & Public Sector: Section 508 / Title II deliverables
Legal: depositions, evidence, and training video
Healthcare: training, telehealth, patient education
Media & Entertainment: film, episodic, streaming
Corporate Training: HR, onboarding, compliance video
Marketing & Agencies: social and promotional captions
Post-Delivery Support & Social Media Ready Captions
We stand by our quality even after delivery. That’s why we offer free revisions, technical assistance, and troubleshooting to ensure your captions function flawlessly across all platforms. If you need format conversions, timestamp adjustments, or minor edits, our support team is available to help. With Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Urdu, German, Hindi, and Farsi typesetting services, your captions maintain linguistic accuracy and cultural relevance for diverse audiences.
Our captions are also optimized for social media engagement, ensuring compatibility with Instagram Reels, TikTok, Facebook Videos, and YouTube Shorts. With our captions, your content becomes more accessible, shareable, and engaging for a wider audience.
For businesses that require seamless integration, we offer API-based captioning solutions, allowing you to automate caption generation and management effortlessly.
The English captions were accurate, perfectly synchronized, and easy to read. The speaker labels and sound descriptions made every video fully accessible, and the caption files worked flawlessly across all our publishing platforms. Highly recommended!
Case Study: Reliable English Closed Captioning Services for Media Content
A U.S. media and entertainment client needed reliable English-language closed captioning for a series of instructional and promotional videos — delivered as time-coded SRT, WebVTT, and SCC caption files with ADA and FCC accessibility support.
The client required reliable English-language closed-captioning services for a series of instructional and promotional videos. The primary goal was to make the content accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers while supporting sound-off viewing across websites, social media platforms, and broadcast channels.
The client requested accurate, time-coded captions with speaker identification, non-speech audio descriptions, proper punctuation, readable line breaks, and frame-accurate synchronization. The captions also needed to support the client's ADA and FCC accessibility requirements.
- 🔤Accurately captioning complex industry-specific terminology within caption line and character limits.
- ⚡Managing rapid speech and overlapping dialogue while maintaining clear speaker identification.
- 📖Keeping captions readable without omitting essential spoken information.
- 🎯Maintaining frame-accurate synchronization throughout the videos.
- 🖼️Positioning captions so they did not cover lower-thirds, graphics, or important on-screen text.
- 📋Ensuring consistent formatting across SRT, VTT, and SCC caption files.
Number of Speakers: Multiple speakers, with up to four speakers in each video.
Languages: English source audio and English closed captions
The strategy involved:
- 👥Assigning the videos to professional captioners experienced in media and entertainment content.
- ✍️Producing accurate, verbatim English captions for all spoken dialogue.
- 🔍Researching and verifying technical terminology, proper nouns, brand names, and industry-specific expressions.
- 📏Formatting captions with a maximum of two lines per caption and approximately 32–42 characters per line.
- 📖Dividing longer sentences at natural grammatical points to improve readability.
- 🗣️Adding clear speaker identification wherever multiple speakers appeared or the speaker was not visible.
- 🔊Including relevant non-speech audio descriptions, such as [music], [applause], and [door closes], to provide complete audio context.
- ⏱️Synchronizing every caption with the corresponding dialogue, scene transition, and shot change.
- 🖼️Adjusting caption placement to prevent important graphics and on-screen text from being covered.
- ✅Conducting multi-stage quality checks for transcription accuracy, punctuation, timing, line breaks, speaker labels, sound descriptions, and file compatibility.
- 📂Validating the completed SRT, VTT, and SCC files before final delivery.
- 🎯All caption files passed platform and broadcast validation during the first delivery.
- ⏱️Frame-accurate synchronization was maintained across the entire 1 hour and 15 minutes of video content.
- ♿The videos became more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers.
- 🔇The captions improved comprehension for audiences watching the videos without sound.
- 🚀The client successfully published the captioned videos across websites, social media channels, and media platforms.
- 📈Viewer engagement and watch time improved after the captions were added.
- 💬The client received fewer viewer inquiries regarding unclear dialogue and technical terminology.
- 📜The completed captions supported the client's ADA and FCC accessibility requirements.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Closed captions can be turned on or off by the viewer, while open captions are burned permanently into the video. We produce both, and we'll recommend the right one for your platform. If you're publishing to US platforms you'll often need both - captions for accessibility compliance and subtitles for each foreign-language audience.
Yes. Captions follow FCC, ADA, and Section 508 standards for accuracy, synchronization, and completeness, supporting broadcast and accessibility compliance. Compliance is checked concretely - accuracy, synchronization, completeness, and placement - the same four points accessibility reviewers verify. Everything is confirmed in writing before work begins.
We deliver SRT, VTT, SCC, STL, and other formats, plus burned-in captions, matched to your platform's specification. Files are encoded in UTF-8 so special characters render correctly across players, and several formats can be exported from one timed master. Everything is confirmed in writing before work begins.
Web video, broadcast TV, e-learning, corporate communications, social media clips, and event recordings are all supported. One order can mix content types, and unusual formats are welcome - send a short sample and we confirm fit before you commit. Everything is confirmed in writing before work begins.
Yes. We caption and translate captions in 100+ languages using native linguists. Translations are timed against the original captions, so every language version stays in sync with the same master. Support is available around the clock if anything needs adjusting.
Human captioners deliver 99+% accuracy with correct punctuation, names, and terminology — well beyond typical auto-caption quality — with a review step before delivery. Names, brands, and technical terms are verified in context rather than spelled phonetically, which is where automated captions most often fail.
Yes. SDH captions add speaker labels and meaningful sound descriptions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers. Speaker labels and cues like [door slams] or [tense music] let viewers follow who's speaking and what's happening beyond the dialogue - and many platforms and festivals now require an SDH track.
English captions start at $1/min for a standalone SRT/VTT file at standard turnaround. Captions in other languages start at $7/min, and burned-in (open) captions start at $5/min — all human-produced to a 99+% accuracy standard. Rush delivery (24–48 hours; files only a few minutes long often deliver even faster) adds 50%; projects over 60 minutes qualify for volume pricing. No setup fee, no minimum.
Standard delivery is 2–3 business days for English and top major languages, with or without a script. Rush delivery (24–48 hours) is available, and files only a few minutes long can often deliver in less than 24 hours — same-day on request. Batches are sequenced so the whole set is ready for a single publish date.
Upload your video or share a link, tell us the format and platform, and we deliver caption files or a captioned video ready to publish. No lengthy setup is needed - send the file, approve the quote, and work begins immediately, any hour of the day.
Closed captions provide a visual aid to deaf people who can't hear the audio output in the video and the language of the text would be the same as the audio. On the other hand, subtitles in a video are intended for viewers that can hear the audio but can't understand the spoken language hence the text is in a different language.
Closed captioning services convert speech, sound effects, and music cues into time-synchronized on-screen text that viewers can toggle on or off, making video accessible to deaf and hard of hearing audiences. English captions start at $1/min and foreign-language captioning at $7/min — see our rates & turnaround table.
Transcription converts your audio into a written text document. Closed captioning takes that text further — breaking it into time-coded caption frames, adding speaker IDs and sound cues, and syncing every line to the video. Many clients order both together, and we deliver the transcript and the caption files from a single workflow.
CEA-708 is the caption standard for US digital television, replacing the analog CEA-608 "line 21" system. It supports custom styling, positioning, and multiple caption services in one stream. We author CEA-708-compliant captions and deliver them in broadcast formats such as SCC and MCC for FCC-regulated programming.
Pop-on captions appear on screen as complete caption blocks, synchronized to the dialogue, and are the industry standard for pre-recorded video — TV programs, films, streaming content, and corporate media. They include speaker identification and sound-effect cues where needed. Roll-up captions, which scroll line by line, are generally reserved for live programming.
Both serve deaf and hard of hearing viewers. Closed captions are a separate toggleable track that includes dialogue, speaker IDs, and sound effects. SDH (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing) delivers the same information as a subtitle track — the format streaming platforms like Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ require — and can also carry translated dialogue.
Yes. We caption to WCAG 2.1 AA — including Success Criterion 1.2.2 for pre-recorded media — which is the technical standard referenced for ADA Title II web-accessibility compliance. State and local government entities face Title II compliance deadlines in 2026–2027, and our human-verified workflow produces caption files that satisfy those requirements.
For ADA, FCC, or Section 508 compliance, human captions are the safe choice. Automatic captions typically miss speaker identification, punctuation, and sound cues, and their error rates fall short of the FCC's accuracy and completeness factors. Vanan captions are 100% human-made — professional captioners create, time-code, and QA every file; we never deliver machine-generated captions.
YouTube accepts SRT, SCC, TTML, and WebVTT uploads. Netflix and most OTT platforms require SDH tracks delivered as TTML/IMSC1 files to their partner specifications — Netflix publishes these rules in its Timed Text Style Guide, with strict timing, reading-speed, and positioning requirements. Tell us your target platform and we deliver files formatted to its current spec.
