Closed Captions with SDH (Subtitles for Deaf and Hard of Hearing)

Here at Transcription City, we offer video transcription services for VOD, DVD, Television, corporate videos (online and offline), feature films, documentaries and music videos. We also provide closed captions for the deaf and hard of hearing, foreign language subtitling, open captioning and live captioning services.

What is Closed Captions with SDH

Worldwide, there are approximately 500 million people that describe themselves as being deaf or hard of hearing. So adding either HOH or SDH closed captioning, subtitling or open captioning to your videos can obviously have a huge positive effect on the accessibility of your videos and as a result expand your audience. Closed captioning for SDH or HOH is similar to subtitles as it contains the dialogue spoken, but also includes information vital audio vital to plot as well as speaker identification and offscreen sound effects.

SDH Subtitles for Deaf and Hard-of-hearing (Captioning Experience)

Our captioners and subtitlers have many years experience and training to ensure that they can create closed captions and open captions for the deaf and hard of hearing. This includes training on all the correct practice for worldwide industry standards and guidelines for SDH captioning. We also have a department dedicated to foreign language subtitling, ensuring that the coding is correct and all symbols and letters are correctly laid out and formatted.

Captioning Services, Subtitling Services and Quality Control

In addition to our captioning and subtitling services, we also offer proofreading services for captions and subtitles, subtitle conversion services, captioning conversion service and interactive transcript services. We can also proofread video transcripts alongside audio or video files for quality control. Our subtitling and captioning services also include text positioning, text colour, roll up and pop on sutbtitles and choice of font style.

Closed Captioning for Broadcast Television

Our broadcast captioning and subtitling services include formats such as DFXP, XML, TTML, SRT, VTT, SMPTE, EBU, CEA-608 and CEA-708.

For more information about any of our video transcription services, closed captioning services, open captioning services, foreign language subtitling services or foreign language transcription services, feel free to contact us at any time.

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For further reading on SDL closed captions, visit this website.