NCI's Real-Time Captioning

Did you know?

In 1982, the National Captioning Institute (NCI) developed the real-time captioning service to give captioned TV viewers access to live programming. With the world's most sophisticated real-time captioning facilities and the most highly trained real-time captioning professionals, NCI provides over 70,000 hours of live captioning every year for the television industry, corporations and government agencies.

What is Real-time Captioning?

Real-time captioning is a method of captioning in which captions are simultaneously prepared and transmitted at the time of origination by specially trained real-time captioners using a stenotype machine. The stenotype machine is connected to a computer with software that translates stenographic shorthand into words in caption formats and standard spellings. Real-time captioners can create captions at speeds of over 225 words per minute. See Live Process for more details.

NCI Offers

• The best quality and service available for real-time captioning
• The largest, best trained and most experienced captioning staff in the world
• Choice of services to match needs
• Competitive rates
• Technical support based on more than 20 years of experience
• English or Spanish captioning
• Use of NCI's logo-the most widely recognized symbol for high-quality captioning

• Premier Real-Time Captioning
• Custom Real-Time Captioning
• Videoconference Captioning
• Government Agencies - Section 508 Accessibility
• Spanish Captioning