Webinars and podcasts

Webinars, podcasts, and online conferences increase exponentially each year, but few of them are captioned. Do you want to capture a wider audience? Caption your events and let people know about them. Deaf and hard of hearing people want to keep pace with their hearing colleagues in education, business, and the many professional fields that are becoming increasingly web-centric. Make that happen by captioning your events through SpeechText Access.

Expand your customer base

Deaf and hard of hearing people make up the biggest group of disabled people in the country. A fifth of the U.S. population has hearing loss significant enough to benefit from captioning. And they are as interested in your web-based events as anyone else. By making your web events accessible via captioning you’ll tap into a whole new audience, one predisposed to become regular customers because you are providing the accessibility they need.
I. King Jordan
I. King Jordan
Past President
Gallaudet University
“Technology is changing the way people receive information and the way people are trained and educated. When educational webcasts are not captioned then people who are deaf or hard of hearing don’t have the same access or the same opportunity to learn that people who can hear do. It's so easy and inexpensive to get webcasts captioned—failing to do so has to be simply a lack of knowledge or understanding by the people who produce and broadcast them. If they knew how many more people they could reach with the simple addition of captions, it would seem a no brainer to add them.”

Extend your broadcasting reach

STA can integrate captions with webcast hosting platforms, such as Blackboard, WebEx, and BizVision. If you don’t have a platform, we can provide a simple URL to stream captions over the Internet. People can access the captions anywhere they can access the Internet. They can view the captioning on PCs, laptops,
tablets—even cell phones.
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Add live captioning to your webinars

Improve the searchability of your event

As a by-product of our work, you’ll receive a word-for-word transcript of the event. By posting the text online you’ll make your event more searchable on the web. In other words, more people will find out about you and your page views go up.

Contact us for a free demonstration.