3Play Media is a media accessibility platform based in
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...
, providing
closed captioning
Closed captioning (CC) is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information, where the viewer is given the choice of whether the text is displayed. Closed cap ...
,
audio description
Audio description (AD), also referred to as a video description, described video, or visual description, is a form of narration used to provide information surrounding key visual elements in a media work (such as a film or television program, or ...
, and
subtitling
Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media. Subtitles might provide a transcription or translation of spoken dialogue. Although naming conventions can vary, caption ...
services for television, video content, and podcasts. The company was founded by Josh Miller and Chris Antunes in 2007.
History
Founded in 2007, 3Play Media developed a range of accessibility solutions for sectors including media and entertainment, education, corporate, government, and e-learning. The company's acquisition of Captionmax, a media accessibility provider, in February 2022 expanded 3Play Media's offerings in live captioning and media accessibility services. The acquisition led to Captionmax's rebranding as 3Play Media on September 21, 2022.
Captionmax, established in 1993, offered closed captioning, translation, video description, and as-broadcast scripts to over 450 customers, including major broadcast and cable TV networks, studios, educational institutions, and corporations. Captionmax's acquisition of National Captioning Canada in March 2021 further expanded its media accessibility services.
3Play Media's cloud-based platform combines machine learning, proprietary data sets, and automatic
speech recognition
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also ...
with human review for accurate accessibility solutions.
See also
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Closed captioning
Closed captioning (CC) is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information, where the viewer is given the choice of whether the text is displayed. Closed cap ...
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Audio description
Audio description (AD), also referred to as a video description, described video, or visual description, is a form of narration used to provide information surrounding key visual elements in a media work (such as a film or television program, or ...
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Subtitles
Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media. Subtitles might provide a transcription or translation of spoken dialogue. Although naming conventions can vary, caption ...
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External links
Official websiteSlator article about acquisitionBusiness Wire article about AI innovationMashable article about AI captions
Companies based in Boston
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American companies established in 2007