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Accessibility at the Lib: Captioning

Accessibility guidance for using the Library.

YouTube

Free Captioning Software

  • CADET - The National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH (NCAM) has developed CADET (Caption and Description Editing Tool)
  • Amara - Caption, subtitle, translate and review work
  • Subtitle Edit - Open Source editor for video subtitles
  • Aegisub - Cross platform open source tool, offers advanced options

Some of these sites will output the text as transcriptions.

Zoom, YouTube, Vimeo, Otter.ai and other options offer live transcription for web-based presentations and meetings. AI creates these; works best when audio is clear.