Resource Guide: CAPTIONING, CART SERVICES & C-PRINT

Last Updated; November 1, 2023

For State of Maine departments and agencies: A Request for Proposal (RFP) was done, and Master Agreements were made with providers and the State of Maine to provide Captioning, Audio Description and CART services, statewide, in all State of Maine departments. This will begin on June 1, 2022. Captioning, Audio Description and CART Services

CLOSED CAPTIONING

**For more information on captioning and captioning service vendors, see the website for Captioned Media Program

Automatic Sync Technologies (AST)
877-278-7962
Email: info@automaticsync.com
Email: support@automaticsync.com

Website: Automatic Sync Technologies

Automatic Sync Technologies (AST), a Verbit company, provides a web-based captioning service that allows professionals to have both recorded and live media and events captioned quickly and accurately to support accessibility and engagement. Professionals can either submit their media content or provide AST's team with the option to connect to sessions live and receive captions to appear on media being posted or streamed via Zoom, YouTube, LMS platforms, podcasts, broadcasts and more. Captioning with AST is faster, easier and more cost efficient than traditional captioning.

Bridge Multimedia
226 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10001
(212) 213-3740 (V)
Email: mkaplowitz@bridgemultimedia.com

For more than 20 years, Bridge has been a high capacity provider of captions in English, Spanish, French Canadian, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Other accessibility services include: audio description, American Sign Language, and PDF document remediation.

Closed Caption Maker
Walter Gallant
1955 Kensington Street
Harrisburg, PA 17104
1-717-695-7981 (V)
Email: wgallant@ccmaker.com
Website: Closed Caption Maker

Closed Caption Maker adds subtitles to streaming videos to meet the requirements of Section 508.

We create the SRT caption file for YouTube. Cost is $2/video minute; includes transcribing.

Custom Captions
Alice Durrant
458 South 2470 West
Provo, UT 84601
(801) 370-9878 (V)

National Association of the Deaf approved provider of post-production closed-captioning and subtitles. Exceptional captioning, quality at low rates. Quick turn around times. Complete satisfaction guaranteed.

Karasch
Chester County Bar Association Building
15 W. Gay Street, 2nd Floor
West Chester PA, 19380
1-800-621-5689 (V)
(619) 696-2008 (FAX)
Email: jalberici@karasch.com
Joe Alberici, Client Relationship Manager
Website: www.karasch.com

We provide real-time live captioning for individuals, large events, broadcast (television or web), and off-line captioning for any pre-existing video. We provide real-time captioning in English, Spanish, and French, and off-line captioning in a variety of foreign languages, including Mandarin, Japanese, Swahili, Vietnamese, Bosnian, Sorani, and Kirundi.

Linguabee, LLC
280 Kohl Street
Broomfield, CO 80020
855-585-5859 (V)
Email: support@linguabee.com
Website: Linguabee, LLC

Simply Captions LLC
2347 E. Carlise Road
Phoenix, AZ 85086
623-606-6019 - text or voice
623-882-8822 - voice
Email: info@simplycaptions.com
Website: SimplyCaptions

Simply Captions is a captioner owned and operated captioning company consistently providing high-quality real-time live captioning (CART, encoder, Zoom, YouTube and other platforms) for individuals and groups for meetings, conferences, sports, and arena events. Women-owned business with a combined 60 years of real-time captioning experience. Both owners hold Certified Realtime Captioner and other certifications through NCRA. We are a CART/captioning provider for the State of Maine Master Agreement.

Video Caption Corporation
88 Hunns Lake Road
Stanfordville, New York 12581
800-705-1203 (V)
Email: tsthomas@vicaps.com
Website: Video Caption Corporation

At Video Caption Corporation, we provide high quality English, Spanish and French off-line closed captioning services, multi-language subtitling services, and audio description services.

Videops
Carol Lane
Auburn, ME
207-712-9700 (V)
Email: carol@videops.com
Website: Video Production Services

Personal attention for your post-production closed-captioning and subtitling needs.

CART Captioning-COMMUNICATION ACCESS REALTIME TRANSLATION

CART captioning is a word-for-word, speech-to-text translation service, using closed-captioning technology, for people who need visual communication access. Unlike computerized note-taking or abbreviation systems, which summarize information for consumers, CART captioning provides a complete translation of all spoken words, which allows consumers to decide for themselves what information is important to them. CART captioning consumers include people with hearing loss, individuals with cognitive or motor challenges, people who wish to improve reading/language skills and those with other communication barriers. A CART captionist uses a steno machine, real-time software and laptop computer to render instant speech-to-text translation on a computer monitor or other display to benefit an individual consumer or a larger group in any number of settings: classrooms; business, government and educational functions; courtrooms, hospitals, religious, civic, cultural, recreation or entertainment events; telephone conferences or on-line webinars. Text files are available. Services may be performed on-site or from a remote location via the Internet.

Caption Logic
Shari Majeski, CCP, CBC
952-388-1546 (V)
207-650-9316 (Text)
Email: majeski.shari@gmail.com
Website: Caption Logic

Nationally certified provider of CART and captioning services. Speech-to-text solutions for webinars, conferences, distance education, public events, broadcast, videos. Display options for a single individual or for groups. Captions can interface over the Internet with various platforms, including Blackboard, Adobe Connect, Daktronics.

HIS Sign, LLC
1-877-886-8879 (Toll Free)
Email: requestinterpreter@hissign.com
Website: HIS Sign, LLC

HIS Sign is an interpreting agency providing a wide array of communication services to every type of organization. Currently provide onsite and remote ASL interpreting (including CUED speech), as well as CART and TypeWell services. In addition to these services, we also offer Transcription and Captioning services and customized solutions.

Karasch
Chester County Bar Association Building
15 W. Gay Street, 2nd Floor
West Chester PA, 19380
1-800-621-5689 (V)
(619) 696-2008 (FAX)
Email: connect@karasch.com
Website: www.karasch.com
Contact: Joe Alberici, Client Relationship Manager
Email: jalberici@karasch.com

We provide CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation)services that can be utilized for both groups and individuals. This service allows the client to view and read the captions of what is being said, in real-time. This service is also available on-site (in person) or remotely in a variety of technical A/V formats (e.g., large screen, webinars, online meeting centers, classrooms, etc.) The versatility of our services has proven to be a beneficial tool for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Linguabee, LLC
280 Kohl Street
Broomfield, CO 80020
855-585-5859 (V)
Email: support@linguabee.com
Website: Linguabee, LLC

Maine CART & Captioning Service
Marsha Dulac-Swain
207-242-9378 (V & Text)
Email: swain.marsha@gmail.com

Providing CART captioning services for individuals and groups since 1998, using 100% human-generated delivery for live speech-to-text translation. We are happy to work with you on the CART setup of your remote event, including, but not limited to, business meetings, educational settings, webinars, conferences, medical appointments.

Jennifer M. Rodrigues
P.O. Box 20278
Castro Valley, CA 94546
(510) 888-9825 (V)
Email: Jenniferrod@compuserve.com

Simply Captions LLC
2347 E. Carlise Road
Phoenix, AZ 85086
623-606-6019 - text or voice
623-882-8822 - voice
Email: info@simplycaptions.com
Website: SimplyCaptions

Simply Captions is a captioner owned and operated captioning company consistently providing high-quality real-time live captioning (CART, encoder, Zoom, YouTube and other platforms) for individuals and groups for meetings, conferences, sports, and arena events. Women-owned business with a combined 60 years of real-time captioning experience. Both owners hold Certified Realtime Captioner and other certifications through NCRA. We are a CART/captioning provider for the State of Maine Master Agreement.