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Captivate™ – Customizable Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Engine

Captivate™ is Verbit’s proprietary, domain-trained automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology uniquely designed to deliver high-accuracy transcription, captioning, and speech-to-text services for real-world applications. Unlike generic ASR, Captivate adapts to your content, your terminology, and your workflows. You’ll notice improvements and greater efficiency with each use of our tailored, AI-driven speech recognition.

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What is Captivate™ ASR?

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) converts spoken language into written text using AI, natural language processing, and statistical models. Captivate™ takes speech-to-text further by applying dynamic domain training, customized vocabularies, and industry-specific language models to achieve far higher transcription accuracy than one-size-fits-all ASR tools. Captivate is the engine behind Verbit’s full suite of speech technologies including real-time captioning, post-production transcripts, and more.

With Captivate, organizations get:

  • Enterprise-grade AI transcription and captioning
  • Robust support for live and recorded content
  • Custom vocabularies and term boosting for industry-specific accuracy
  • Searchable, timestamped output ready for use

 

Captivate™ offers 3 flexible AI captioning & transcription solutions to choose from

From fast, AI-powered transcription to enhanced accuracy with human review, Captivate™ offers scalable captioning and transcription options for live and recorded content—tailored to your compliance, budget, and quality requirements.

Captivate™

Developed in-house by transcription, speech and machine learning experts, Captivate™ is trained using diverse language models to understand languages, accents, and speech patterns better than generic ASR engines. It delivers accurate, scalable captions and transcripts for both live and recorded content.

Captivate™ Post

Captivate™ Post provides AI-generated captions and transcripts for pre-recorded audio and video. Features include domain-specific dictionaries, boosted terminology, and integrations with video platforms and cloud storage—perfect for teams balancing speed, accuracy, and budget.

Captivate™ Post Plus

Captivate™ Post Plus adds an expert human review layer for the highest accuracy and compliance. Includes enhanced caption placement, atmospherics detection (sound effects, music, lyrics), and commercial black detection, ideal for regulated industries, broadcast, and accessibility-focused workflows.

Why Captivate™ outperforms generic ASR in speech recognition accuracy

Captivate™ combines domain-trained AI, customizable vocabularies, and continuous model tuning to deliver higher speech recognition accuracy than one-size-fits-all ASR tools.

Custom vocabularies & term boosting

Customers can upload glossaries, terminology lists, and preferred formatting rules that help the model recognize niche words, industry acronyms, and proper names during captioning and transcription.

Dynamic domain models

Continuous training on domain-specific terminology – both before and during transcription sessions – allows Captivate to better understand context and meaning across industries.

Built for real-time and post-production

Captivate supports live ASR and real-time transcription (ideal for events, meetings, broadcasts, and legal proceedings) and recorded audio and video workflows.

Intelligent speaker identification

Captivate supports advanced speaker identification, tagging and differentiating voices accurately in complex audio environments – an innovation supported by Verbit’s Global Prep Team.

Enterprise security & compliance

Security and compliance are fundamental to Captivate’s design, with encrypted workflows and alignment with SOC 2 Type II standards.

Budget-friendly

Verbit supports organizations of all sizes, from major networks to independent creators. Let’s create a tailored plan that meets your budget and workflow.

Why domain-trained ASR matters

Generic speech-to-text technology may work for general conversations, but it often struggles with:

  • Technical jargon and specialised terminology
  • Accents, dialects, and nuanced speech patterns
  • Noisy or complex audio environments
  • Domain-specific use cases like legal, education, government, broadcast, and corporate content

Captivate ASR addresses these challenges by enlisting training models on the relevant industry and customer-specific content and language, improving accuracy and contextual relevance with every use.

 

Captivate in action

Powered solutions across industries

Captivate™ for Media

Live and post-production captions with leading accuracy for network broadcasts and streaming content, including news, sports and events.

Captivate™ for Education

Live and recorded captions and transcripts for in-person and virtual lectures, archived media, videos and LMS-embedded content.

Captivate™ for Government

Live and recorded captions and transcripts for municipal and county government, state legislative, school board and federal agency meetings and press conferences.

Legal Capture

Real-time transcription during live court proceedings and depositions, using legal-specific training to ensure high accuracy. It also powers Verbit Legal Visor, our AI-driven platform that goes beyond transcription to provide real-time insights and support across a range of legal environments.

Enterprise Capture

Caption internal meetings, webinars and live training sessions in real-time and make recorded meetings and events, keeping participants engaged, improving comprehension and making presentations more accessible.

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Empower your organization with customized, high-accuracy automatic speech recognition that adapts to your content, context, and industry needs. Explore how Captivate™ can transform your transcription and captioning workflows.

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FAQs on ASR and Verbit Captivate

What makes Captivate™ different from other ASR engines?

Captivate is designed with domain training, custom vocabularies, and ongoing model refinement, enabling higher accuracy and tailored output compared to generic ASR.

What are the benefits of using Verbit’s Captivate™ automatic speech recognition technology?

The benefits of Captivate™ automatic speech recognition include:

  • Higher accuracy than generic ASR because of domain-specific training

  • Customizable and adaptable to your organization’s language and content

  • Scalable for live and recorded content

  • Improves over time via feedback and continued domain refinement

  • Multilingual support that works across languages and dialects

  • Enterprise security and compliance you can trust

Can Captivate handle live captions and real-time transcription?

Yes. Captivate supports real-time ASR captioning and post-production captioning and transcription for recorded content across industries.

How does Captivate improve accuracy on complex terminology?

Captivate reaches incredibly high levels of accuracy when captioning and transcribing by using domain-specific language models, term boosting, and custom dictionaries — all of which allow Captivate to recognize technical terms, proper names, and industry jargon.

Is Captivate secure for sensitive content?

Yes. Captivate operates within Verbit’s enterprise-grade, secure infrastructure designed for regulated and confidential workflows. Organizations using Captivate benefit from:

  • Encrypted ASR workflows

  • Compliance with best-in-class standards (e.g., SOC 2 Type II)

  • Secure handling of sensitive and regulated content

This makes Captivate suitable for use in legal, government, corporate, and healthcare environments, where privacy and governance are essential.

What languages does Captivate support?

Captivate supports captioning and transcription which can then be translated in 28+ languages, enabling global accessibility, localization, and transcription for multilingual content.