What is Live Captioning?
When you need a live event made accessible for people who cannot hear, live captioning is the service you need. Live captioning is used for newscasts, broadcast sports events, arena captioning, city council meetings, business conferences, concerts, webinars, and more!
Live broadcast captions – on TV — are always in the roll-up format, in which individual lines appear on the screen and roll up to make way for the next lines. Feel free to visit our FAQ page to learn more about roll-up captioning and browse our Live Captioning Services to see what we can do for you!
Live Event Captioning
Live event captioning offers immediate, verbatim, voice-to-text translation at events, sporting events, conferences, conventions, graduations, classes, public hearings, and government meetings. You may hear people call this service CART Captioning.
LNS provides access for participants who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, those new to learning the English language, or for audience members who simply have trouble hearing the audio in a noisy venue. The live captions can be presented on a large video display, a text ribbon, other video displays, handheld devices, a laptop or other projection system .
We use remote captioning for most events, though we are able to provide onsite captioning with enough notice. Advance booking is very important for large events to make your event go as smoothly as possible. Call us at your earliest convenience to book our captioners. For high quality captions, we request scripts or preparation material in advance.
Live StreamCast at MetLife Stadium
cart captioning Webstream
LNS utilizes CART Captioning Webstream as an easy-to-implement, inexpensive way to communicate your message to your audience – whether your audience is attending the event in person or via the internet, a smartphone, or some other wired device. Our team can provide a platform for you or connect to your own, including Zoom, Adobe Connect Pro, WebEx, GoToMeeting, Granicus, and many more.
HOW IT WORKS:
- We transmit your audio feed by phone or the web to an LNS expert captioner.
- Our expert captioner creates a verbatim transcription of the spoken word to text.
- We feed the captions back to you in real time via any connected device – desktop, notebook, tablet, big-screen, or smartphone.
- Benefits to CART Caption Streaming and using LNS Captioning:
- Live realtime captions, created by people – never AI captions.
- Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 compliant.
- Add captions to your streaming video easily on your own website or a third party website, like YouTube
- Meeting platforms such as Zoom, Teams, YouTube, GoToMeeting, WebEx and more supported.
- We also have a great solution for meeting platforms that do not support captioning: Streamcast. It is very easy to use and can be set up in minutes.
- Improve your website SEO by making searchable text from the captioning file.
- LNS Captioning is experienced in live and post-production captioning since 1991
- LNS Captioning is known for their customer service, ability to offer complete solutions for accessibility, accuracy and consistent quality.
- LNS Captioners consistently achieve 99% accuracy, and we assess accuracy of all captioners on a monthly basis.
- LNS Captioners are certified by NCRA (National Court Reporters Association)
- Captioning is also available for social media, commercial spots, feature films, television, educational videos and internet broadcasts.
STREAMCAST
Our newest tool is StreamCast, which allows you to overlay captions onto any application that does not have native broadcast captioning support. You can use StreamCast to display our captions over a Power Point file or a webinar platform.
Download the Streamcast PDF Brochure for information about our favorite new tool.
Click here to request a quote.
LNS Webstream Demo
LIVE CART CAPTIONING SERVICES
Since 1993, LNS has been a leader in providing live captions for broadcast news, sports, and live events. From around the country, we can watch or listen to your broadcast and create captions, which are then sent via iCap, streaming or IP to your production facility. The captions remain part of the broadcast signal when that is sent to your viewers. We can also work on location at your production site.
We caption a wide variety of programs around the country as well as sports and entertainment, for clients such as Capital One Arena, the New Orleans Superdome, and the Portland Trail Blazers. Our clients know that when it comes to timeliness, accuracy, reliability, and accessibility, LNS will come through for them every time.
Live event captioning, also known as Communication Access Realtime Translation – CART Captioning — offers immediate, accurate, voice-to-text translation for events, conferences, conventions, classes, public hearings, and government meetings.
LNS provides access for people with hearing disabilities, for those new to learning the English language, or for audience members who simply have trouble hearing the audio in a noisy venue. The live captions can be presented on a laptop display, streamed on their handheld device or overlaid on video to give the whole audience access to captions. For information regarding captioning via webstream, visit our LNS Webstream page.
We are seeing an increase in the requests for CART captioning from participants in courtroom proceedings, including litigants, attorneys, and potential jurors. Click here for more information about the best practices for using CART captioning in the courtroom.
Advance reservations for this service are necessary. Call us at your earliest convenience to book our captioners. In order to provide high-quality captions, we request scripts or preparation material in advance. We love to spell names and technical terminology correctly, and documents such as the rough drafts of speeches or power point slides are very helpful.
LNS Webstream is an easy-to-implement way to communicate your message to your audience – whether your audience is attending the event in person or via the internet, a handheld, or some other digital device.
Our team can provide an event-specific URL for your event that can be used in a wide variety of platforms, including Zoom, Teams, Adobe Connect Pro, WebEx, GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, YouTube, and many more.
LNS StreamCast is an application designed to allow you to overlay captions onto any application that does not have native broadcast captioning support. You can use StreamCast to display our captions over a Power Point file or a webinar platform. These captions can be easily projected on a screen, or simply viewed on any internet-connected device (computer, phone, tablet, etc.).
LNS can help you provide equal access to information for Spanish-speaking audiences, as well as many other non-English audiences. We can provide Spanish-to-Spanish captions, or English-to-Spanish, or Spanish-to-English captions on TV, for webinars, and for live events. And of course, the quality of the captions is always the best, regardless of the language!
