Open Captions
Boost engagement rate and widen your reach with open captioning services
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, capturing and maintaining your audience's attention is crucial. Open captions provide a powerful solution to captivate viewers and enhance your video performance.
Open captions are permanently in view and can’t be turned off and on, this ensures that every viewer can follow along with the dialogue and audio cues of your multimedia content. You've likely encountered them while watching movies in the cinema or in branded social media videos.
Captions play a vital role in bridging language barriers and making content more accessible to diverse audiences.
From social media to your website, incorporating open captions can significantly boost branding and engagement rates. By making your content accessible to those who prefer to watch videos without sound or individuals with hearing impairments.
At VoiceBox, we work with you to create synchronised and seamless captions that make for an effortless viewing experience.
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What are Open Captions and Why Are They Important?
Open captions are a form of text that is permanently embedded in a video, making them visible at all times and unable to be turned on or off by viewers. These captions are an integral part of the video itself. They provide a seamless viewing experience for everyone, ensuring accessibility and inclusivity for individuals with hearing impairments and those who prefer to watch videos without sound.
From enhancing your multimedia accessibility to increasing communication barriers, open captions are important for a number of reasons:
Accessibility: Open captions with sound descriptions are a powerful tool for ensuring accessibility for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. By providing a visual representation of the spoken content, open captions enable these individuals to fully understand and engage with videos. By including open subtitles into multimedia content, you can make sure everyone enjoys the same viewing experience.
Inclusivity: In today's diverse world, it is essential to cater to the needs of a broad audience. Open captions can be translated into several languages, making them inclusive to a wider audience. This can not only expand the reach of your content but increase your international sales and profitability.
Branding: With open captions, you are given the opportunity to customise as you wish. From the text font, colour, size, and positioning, you can create a visually appealing and cohesive look that matches your brand. By using your colours and fonts you can increase brand awareness and leave a lasting impression on your viewers.
Comprehension and Retention: Improve comprehension and information retention through the use of open captions. Captions provide visual reinforcement of the spoken content, helping viewers better understand and absorb the message being conveyed. Whether it's complex concepts, technical terminology, or dialogue in a foreign language, open captions can ensure no important details are missed.
Compliance: To ensure you meet accessibility compliance standards, legal requirements, and industry guidelines use open captions. By incorporating captioning into your multimedia content, you assure that your organisation is compliant with accessibility regulations.
Engagement and User Experience: Open captions grab attention, improve comprehension, and create a more immersive viewing experience. By providing open captions, you enhance the overall quality of your videos, making them more engaging, memorable, and shareable. As well as this, captions can also improve search engine optimisation (SEO) by providing additional text that search engines can read and increase your video's visibility.
What do our clients say?
Thank you so much for the speed of delivery. It’s game-changing for us
Ian Gibbons, Creative Director of Panvista Productions
Our Subtitling Services
At VoiceBox, we offer a comprehensive range of subtitling services to meet all your multilingual multimedia needs. With our expertise and dedication to excellence, we provide professional solutions that enhance accessibility, engagement, and inclusivity. Our services include:
Closed Captions: Here at VoiceBox, we specialise in creating accurate and effortless captions that can be turned on and off. This type of captioning enables viewers to read dialogue, sound effects, and other audio elements, making your content accessible.
Live Captions: For live events, webinars, and broadcasts, we offer live captioning services. Our skilled captioners can accurately transcribe and display captions in real-time, ensuring that your content is accessible to a wide audience. Live captions are vital for delivering inclusive and accessible experiences, allowing viewers to follow along with the spoken content as it happens.
Subtitles: Subtitles provide a text representation of the dialogue in a video, making it accessible to viewers who may not understand the language or require additional language support. Our team of professionals excel in creating precise and localised subtitles that enhance comprehension and engage diverse audiences.
SDH Subtitles: Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH) go beyond traditional subtitles by providing additional information such as speaker identification, sound effects, and music description. SDH subtitles ensure that viewers with hearing impairments can fully experience and understand your content, creating a truly inclusive viewing experience.
Why choose VoiceBox as your open captioning agency?
At VoiceBox, we understand the unique challenges that come with video content creation. We recognise the need for an agency that can adapt to your specific requirements and provide exceptional open captioning services. When you choose VoiceBox as your open captioning agency, you can expect the following three key reasons that set us apart:
Versatility: Our expert team and extensive network of subtitles enable us to deliver high-quality open subtitling that perfectly matches the needs of your project. We have the skills and resources to handle a wide range of content, from educational videos to marketing campaigns, ensuring that your open captions are accurate, synchronised, and tailored to your target audience.
Collaboration: We believe in working hand-in-hand with our clients to ensure their complete satisfaction. Our collaborative approach means that we value your input and feedback throughout the entire process. We listen to your specific requirements, understand your vision, and incorporate your preferences to deliver open captions that align with your expectations. Your success is our success, and we are committed to building strong partnerships with our clients.
Flexibility: VoiceBox understand that the landscape of video content creation is ever-evolving, and sometimes changes in the brief, budget, or timescale are necessary. As an organisation, we pride ourselves on our flexibility to accommodate these changes and ensure that your project is completed to a high standard. We are committed to adapting to your evolving needs, providing solutions that meet your updated requirements without compromising on quality or delivery.
