Closed Captioning

Q: What caption and subtitle formats are supported?

Verbit’s users can export video captions and subtitles in the following formats: SRT, VTT, SCC, SAMI and DFXP.

Q: Does Verbit support open and encoded captions?

Yes, Verbit's audio and video captioning supports both options.

Q: Can Verbit provide closed captions for difficult audio and video?

Yes, Verbit’s technology and AI-based solution improves with each use. It accommodates difficult accents, background noise and individual speakers. Verbit’s team of professionals then fact-check the audio and video closed captions to ensure accuracy.

Q: Can closed captions help to boost my SEO rankings?

Yes, Verbit’s closed captioning solution makes all content searchable, which improves its users’ SEO rankings. Closed captions create a text file that search engines can interpret, allowing captioned videos to rank significantly higher in search results.

Verbit streamlines transcription and closed captioning services to support all video and audio needs. Users benefit from accurate, interactive transcripts and helpful integrations with Zoom, LMS and video hosting platforms. Captioning makes your audio searchable and increases view time and engagement.

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1M

words transcribed
per day

35K+

professional
transcribers

4 HR

turnaround
on transcripts

56K+

video files
captioned per week

Ease of use with key integrations

Users benefit from API and out-of-the-box integrations with Blackboard, Canvas and other LMS. Verbit’s automatic captioning software integrates with Panopto, Brightcove, JW Player, Vimeo, YouTube, AWS, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and Google Drive for seamless use.

Compliance & security matter

Verbit’s platform meets ADA, FCC, WCAG 2.0 SOC 2, HIPAA, HECVAT, VPAT and GDPR guidelines, ensuring users meet disability needs, among others.

Captions increase engagement

Verbit’s closed captions engage professionals and students learning in various environments more effectively, increasing their comprehension of videos, events and content they’re consuming. The closed captions and subtitles can be offered in all languages and in multiple formats, including SRT, VTT, SCC, SAMI and DFXP.

Meeting Captioning Needs

Viewers now expect all video and audio content they’re consuming to be captioned.

Captioning Tailored to Your Industry

Verbit’s highly accurate transcription and closed captioning software supports business events, meetings, trainings, town halls, research, interviews, podcasts and more.

Benefit from quick turnaround times, support for difficult audio and video files, SMPTE timecodes and speaker identification, multiple transcription formats, customized closed captioning capabilities and live broadcasting support via RTMP.

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Trusted by 2,000+ Customers

“Verbit’s solution is faster and just as accurate as our in-house transcription department. We’ve saved tens of thousands of dollars in reduced workforce costs.”

Jeff Handy

Product Owner at Bisk, Agile Project Management

“A 20-minute video may have taken us three or four hours to edit an automatic transcript, so Verbit’s a real time saver for us.”

Jenny Crow

Digital Education Team Manager (MVLS), University of Glasgow

“We have hundreds of events. Handing over an API key takes two seconds and then it’s done, so Verbit was really easy to set up”

Juli MacArthur

Learning Technologist, Royal College of Art

“We have a global audience… With everything captioned, we can now offer translations of that content as well.”

Susan Threadgill

Product Lead, Skillshare

“We came across Verbit right from the start… Straight away, it was clearly the best product, most reliable, most accurate. It’s become ingrained in the Union.”

Mike Joslin

Lead Marketing Officer, NEU

“Verbit’s one of those platforms, because it does what it does so well, it just sells itself around school. Everyone likes to use it because it’s so quick… Verbit was just a simple win.”

Sushil Pallen

Learning Innovation Manager, London Business School

“We were able to come up with a contract. That process went really quickly. Then within that next week, I would say, I was meeting with [Verbit] and we were getting everything in place for live captioning.”

Barbara Forrest-Ball

Ed: K-12, NIC, Manager, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Access Services, Oregon State

Q&A

What file types can be closed captioned and subtitled?

Verbit’s closed captioning services work with: MP3, MP4, FLAC, OGA, OGG, DSS, M4A, WAV, WEBM, and WMA, 3GP, AAC, AVI, FLV, MP4, MPG, and MPEG-2 files and others.

What caption and subtitle formats are supported? Does Verbit support open and encoded captions? Can Verbit provide closed captions for difficult audio and video? Can closed captions help to boost my SEO rankings?

Pricing

Whether you need Verbit for live or recorded video and audio, we’ll create a custom offering that’s perfect for you and cost-efficient. Let’s chat to get an understanding of your closed captioning and transcription needs.

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