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Most comprehensive QC & correction for captions/subtitles
Delivering good quality captions or subtitles can be very costly due to significant manual intervention required in identifying and rectifying a variety of issues with traditional closed captioning software. This becomes even more difficult especially when automated subtitling tools are used or different customers have different technical and quality requirements. Operators end up spending numerous hours and sometimes days dealing with this. If the Caption or Subtitle QC is neglected and not done properly, then this can pose serious brand risk in the current environment where viewers expect highest quality of experience.
CapMate® – Captions QC & Correction platform changes all that. It automatically identifies issues that may have been introduced by closed captioning software and allows users to perform auto correction and export the rectified captions right from within the platform. This saves significant time & cost for the organizations that use automated subtitling or captioning software, allowing them accurate delivery of captions as well as deploying their resources in more value-added tasks.
Delivering good quality captions or subtitles can be very costly due to significant manual intervention required in identifying and rectifying a variety of issues with traditional captioning software. This becomes more difficult especially when different customers have different technical and quality requirements. Operators end up spending numerous hours and sometimes days dealing with this. If the Caption or Subtitle QC is neglected and not done properly, then this can pose serious brand risk in the current environment where viewers expect highest quality of experience.
CapMate – Captions QC & Correction platform changes all that. It automatically identifies issues and allows users to perform auto correction and export the rectified captions right from within the platform. This saves significant time & cost for the organizations, and allow them to deploy their resources in more value-added tasks.
Rich QC features of CapMate ensure that the captions/subtitles of your content are compliant with corresponding specifications like SCC, IMSC, TTML, etc. You can further validate the captions/subtitles for major content delivery platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Viacom-CBS and others.
CapMate and its advanced automatic sync technologies, allows automatic identification and correction of the sync issues between audio and captions in the content, which can be further reviewed. Rich manual correction and adjustment capabilities are provided for further control on captions and subtitles.
CapMate automatically identifies all the locations where burnt-in text overlaps with captions/subtitles, and allows you to take corrective measures so that all important information is clearly visible to the viewers.
CapMate can identify and rectify the timing issues of the captions, such as display duration of the caption, number of characters displayed in a line, number of words displayed in a minute, and time gap between two successive captions.
With CapMate, you can easily identify abusive/curse words in the captions/subtitles and replace them with words of your choice. Corrected caption files can be further exported.
CapMate can automatically identify missing captions in the portion of a movie or a TV show, helping you insert the missing caption, and export the corrected caption file, ensuring accurate delivery of captions.
CapMate is equipped with rich browser-based review and correction system, allowing users to navigate and preview caption QC results with associated audio/video, manually correct the caption timing, text, and styling, and export the corrected.
Rich QC features of CapMate ensure that the captions/subtitles of your content are compliant with corresponding specifications like SCC, IMSC, TTML, etc. You can further validate the captions/subtitles for major content delivery platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, Viacom-CBS and others.
CapMate allows to automatically identify and correct the sync issues between audio and captions in the content, which can be further reviewed. Rich manual correction and adjustment capabilities are provided for fine control on captions and subtitles.
CapMate automatically identifies all the overlap locations of burnt-in text and captions/subtitles, and allows to take corrective measures so that all important information is clearly visible to the viewers.
CapMate can identify and rectify the timing issues of the captions, such as display duration of the caption, number of characters displayed in a line, number of words displayed in a minute, and time gap between two successive captions.
With CapMate, you can easily identify abusive/curse words in the captions/subtitles and replace them with words of your choice. Corrected caption files can be further exported.
CapMate can automatically identify missing captions in the portion of a movie or a TV show, help you insert the missing caption, and export the rectified file.
CapMate is equipped with rich browser-based review and correction system, allowing users to navigate and preview caption QC results with associated audio/video, manually correct the caption timing, text, and styling, and export the corrected.
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CapMate supports a wide range of caption/subtitle formats. It also allows a wide range of checks on caption and subtitle assets.
Input: SRT, SCC, IMSC, TTML, DXFP, SMPTE-TT
Export: All the above formats supported. Export in same format as the input.
Text: No. of lines, Line length, Caption position, Profane words, Spell check, Missing translation
Timing: CPS, CPL, WPM, Min/Max Duration, Frame gap
Text/Video: Caption overlap on burnt-in text
Text/Audio: Caption/Audio synchronization, Missing Captions, Supported Languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese
Compliance: SRT, IMSC, TTML, DFXP, SCC, SMPTE-TT, EBU-STL, WebVTT, ITT
Parameters: HDR Formats, Reporting of HDR10, HDR10+, and Dolby Vision metadata
Spotting: Video segments containing burnt-in text
Subtitles usually refers to the transcript version of the spoken dialogue if displayed in the same language, or the translated version of the spoken dialogue if displayed in a different language. It is assumed that the viewer can hear the audio and the focus is only on dialogues.
Captions usually refers to the transcript version of the spoken dialogue along with description of other elements such as Background noise, speaker information and other relevant information. It is usually displayed in the same language as content and is designed for hard to hear or deaf people. “Closed Captions” can be turned OFF by the viewer as needed however “Open captions” are burnt-in into the video and can’t be turned OFF.
Some of the typical captioning issues include Caption time alignment with speech or popularly called as Sync issues, Caption overlapping with On-screen Text, Missing Captions, Missing forced narratives, Display duration issues, File format conformance issues, etc.
Spotting, which is, to pinpoint the exact nature and location of the error could be at times tedious if done manually. CapMate® on the other hand, can make spotting the errors easy where the user has to visit only those locations which have issues.
Yes, CapMate® can automatically correct a range of issues with a few clicks in minutes.
CapMate® is a caption QC and correction platform offered as SaaS on AWS cloud. It automatically identifies issues and allows users to perform “Auto-correction” and export rectified/corrected captions files right from the application.
Yes, CapMate® allows users to set up QC templates for specific requirements against which all the checks can be performed.
Yes, CapMate® can detect and correct sync errors like Drift sync errors, Segment-wise sync errors in minutes.
Yes, CapMate® can detect the captions overlapping with on-screen text and correct it with just a single click.
Yes, CapMate® can detect the speech segments where the corresponding captions are missing in the caption file.
Missing Translation feature of CapMate® detects those portions of captions present in primary caption file but missing in the secondary caption file i.e. translated caption files.
Yes, CapMate® is available for trial purposes so that the content providers can test this automated subtitle/caption QC software before availing of its subscription.
SRT, SCC, IMSC, TTML, SMPTE-TT, DFXP, WEBVTT, EBUSTL
No, it is a cloud-based SaaS service and doesn’t need any installation or hardware provisioning.You can directly use it by logging onto CapMate® through the web browser.
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