Media accessibility & localization solutions for broadcasts, streaming & content creation

Verbit supports compliance with FCC captioning rules, ADA accessibility requirements, WCAG guidelines, and global equivalents, helping ensure inclusive media distribution. Our team is actively involved in standards setting and compliance, including WCAG, OfCom and the European Accessibility Act. Visit our Resources page for more information.

Media localization refers to adapting media content for different languages and regions using captions, subtitles, dubbed audio, translated audio, and cultural context. It’s essential for global reach, audience engagement, and accessibility compliance. Translating and localizing media content helps content creators and shows reach global audiences, increase engagement, and meet regulatory accessibility standards across regions including the U.S., Europe, and beyond.

Verbit’s solutions support TV broadcasts, streaming shows, films, documentaries, podcasts, social media videos, YouTube channels, live events, sports, and both long and short-form content for creators.

Our automatic speech recognition technology, Captivate™, is designed for accuracy, combining advanced AI with expert human quality review checks and professional editing of captions, subtitles, and transcripts. Captivate is domain-trained for media and can work alongside and integrate with various platforms you’re using. Verbit’s media integrations help you incorporate our captioning and transcription services into your current workflow efficiently.

Captions display on-screen text of spoken audio and sound cues. Captions were initially designed to help viewers who are Deaf or have hearing loss, but now many audience members opt to watch their content with captions as a helpful visual cue. Captions also account for music and sound effects. Synchronized captions are also a must to ensure accessibility guidelines are met. Subtitles translate spoken dialogue from your content into other languages for international audiences to be able to follow along and understand.

Media transcription provides searchable text from audio/video, enabling easier editing, metadata tagging, compliance logging, research analysis, and content repurposing. With Verbit’s transcripts, media professionals can act on their content with ease and use Gen AI tools like Gen.V to generate automatic summaries of long media transcripts, titles for their content, keywords and more.

There are different ways to differentiate between speakers in captions which help make captions clearer and easier to follow for the audience, ensuring they can distinguish who is speaking at any given time. Speaker IDs or speaker labels can be used before each line of dialogue to express who is talking. These IDs could be a proper name (“JOE” or “JANE”) or more general (“MAN” or “NARRATOR”). Some captions may also display a simple hyphen or dash before lines of dialogue to denote a change of speaker.
– I’ll meet you there.
– Sounds good!
Verbit’s technology and teams are trained to accurately detect speakers and perform even in noisy environments where speakers are talking over each other.

Yes. Voice dubbing and audio description are available to enhance accessibility and localization in multiple languages. These localization and accessibility services help media reach broader audiences. Our media management platform makes it easy to request and download anything from captions to audio description files quickly and securely.

Verbit offers many translation capabilities. Our multi-language subtitles and captioning in 28+ languages, enables media localization for global content distribution. Verbit’s platform supports voice dubbing and expressive localization workflows powered by AI and with partner technologies like Deepdub to enable culturally resonant audio tracks for global distribution.

Verbit supports a wide range of file formats including SRT, VTT, SCC, SAMI, RTMP, and more – ensuring compatibility with broadcast, OTT, and streaming platforms.