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From Gigaom:
Online video captioning company 3Play Media launched a new site called YouTubecaptions.com Thursday that aims to make it easier for YouTube users to add professionally transcribed subtitles to their videos.
Users can simply sign in with their YouTube accounts and order closed
captions for any of their publicly available videos, with
YoutubeCaptions.com charging $2.50 per transcribed minute of video.
3Play Media is working with a network of more than 400 professional
transcriptionists, and promises turnaround times of just a few hours.
YouTubecaptions.com isn’t the only way to add closed captions to
YouTube videos. The video site rolled out its own automatic captioning
based on Google’s speech recognition technology back in 2009, but the
results of this can be mixed. That’s why others have stepped in with
their own captioning efforts.
Most notably, Amara.org offers users an online editor
to add their own captions to their videos, and even crowdsource closed
captioning efforts. However, for people who don’t want to deal with
transcribing videos themselves, YouTubecaptions.com looks like an
interesting alternative.
