BOSTON, MA – August 21, 2025 – 3Play Media today announced a comprehensive rebrand reflecting its transformation from a video accessibility tech company into a leader in video localization and global accessibility solutions, driven by breakthrough AI technology that delivers unprecedented quality control and customization.

Founded in 2008 out of MIT, 3Play Media was one of the first captioning companies to utilize AI, combining automated speech recognition (ASR) with custom modeling, patented software tools, and human review to deliver faster, more affordable video accessibility solutions to millions of people. With over 15 years of experience honing AI models for speech tech, 3Play Media is now applying their learnings to audio description, dubbing, and subtitling, where AI technology has only recently caught up. 

“Our expansion represents more than adding language capabilities—it’s about reimagining how organizations reach global audiences while maintaining the highest accessibility and quality standards,” said Josh Miller, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of 3Play Media. “We’ve always been focused on enabling content consumption by any user in any mode desired – this expansion is a logical expansion for us. By leveraging advances in speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and computer vision, we’ve unlocked more efficient and cost-effective ways to deliver inclusive video experiences at scale.”

Unlike competitors offering either AI-only or traditional human solutions, 3Play Media offers fully customizable, hybrid workflows that enable customers to choose the precise blend of AI and human review that best aligns with their goals. Whether that’s premium AI, a light cleanup to remove hallucinations and other basic AI pitfalls, full review to deliver compliance with major accessibility laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and European Accessibility Act (EAA), or comprehensive expert review for premium streaming content, 3Play Media gives organizations the flexibility to meet their quality, budget, turnaround, and brand needs. 

“What makes 3Play unique is our ability to give customers complete control of the range of options between AI only and comprehensive expert review,” said Chris Antunes, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of 3Play Media. “We believe the future lies in intelligently combining AI and human expertise to give customers unparalleled brand and budget safety.”

The refreshed brand brings 3Play’s 17 years of AI expertise to the forefront and positions 3Play as a technology-forward leader with a sharper, more contemporary design that reflects their evolution to a global, AI-enabled video accessibility and localization platform.

“Our new brand identity communicates both technical sophistication and a deep understanding of global content needs,” said Lily Bond, Chief Growth Officer. “It positions us alongside leading technology companies while reinforcing the trust and reliability 3Play customers expect.”

3Play Media’s solutions integrate seamlessly with existing workflows through 40+ platform integrations and custom API solutions, serving clients from major broadcasters and streaming platforms to educational institutions worldwide.

About 3Play Media

3Play Media is a leading provider of video accessibility and localization solutions, blending proprietary tooling, advanced AI technology, and human expertise to deliver high-quality services at scale. Headquartered in Boston, the company serves organizations worldwide with its dubbing, subtitling, captioning, and audio description services—making inclusive, multilingual video content seamless.

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Noah Pearson

As a marketing specialist with 3Play Media, Noah specializes in accessibility and localization content creation, leveraging his technology expertise to help organizations expand their global reach and create a more inclusive digital experience.

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Download the Free 2025 State of ASR Report

BOSTON, Mass., May 20, 2025 — While Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies are maturing and becoming more sophisticated, human review remains essential for meeting accessibility standards, according to the latest State of ASR report by 3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider in North America, released today.

“Our research continues to show that while ASR technology has made remarkable strides, we’re witnessing an increasing plateau in accuracy improvements for English pre-recorded content,” Josh Miller, co-CEO and co-Founder, 3Play Media, said. “The gulf between the leading engines and the rest of the field has widened. However, the error rates across all engines still fall short of meeting accessibility requirements, reaffirming that human-in-the-loop workflows remain critical for captioning and transcription use cases.”

The study evaluated speech-to-text technology as it applies to captioning and transcription across 205 hours of diverse audio content, representing a 30% increase in testing volume from the previous year. The expanded dataset of over 1.7 million words spans multiple industries and use cases, providing unparalleled insight into real-world ASR performance. The research evaluated eight ASR engines along with Gemini, a multimodal large language model (LLM) prompted to perform transcription.

A key finding from this year’s report is that Whisper X performs significantly differently from the original Whisper models, showing no signs of the hallucination behavior that was observed with Whisper Large V2 and V3, which demonstrated significantly higher rates of hallucinations compared to other engines. Meanwhile, AssemblyAI’s Universal-2 model and Whisper X slightly outperformed Speechmatics based on error rates, though all three stood substantially ahead of other engines tested.

As observed in previous years, ASR accuracy varies significantly across different industries, reinforcing the need for specialized approaches depending on content type and use case. The study also found that LLMs are not yet viable replacements for dedicated ASR engines in transcription tasks. The greatest challenge for ASR technology remains sports content, with error rates 3x higher than the best performing industries due to complicated noise environments, unscripted speech, player and coach names, and numerical information with unique phrasing conventions.

Given the plateau in improvements, the report indicates that future ASR innovations are likely to focus less on incremental improvements to English pre-recorded content accuracy and more on real-time applications and non-English language capabilities.

To obtain a free copy of The 2025 State of ASR report, please visit: https://go.3playmedia.com/rs-2025-asr 

About 3Play Media

3Play Media provides closed captioning, transcription, and audio description services to make video accessibility easy. We are based in Boston, MA, and have been operating since 2008.

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BOSTON, Mass., March 27, 2025 – 3Play Media, the industry leader in media accessibility solutions, today announced the launch of its global linguist marketplace along with its cutting-edge, AI-Enabled accessibility and localization solutions for video-forward businesses across media & entertainment and enterprise. This timely release comes as the European Accessibility Act (EAA) is set to take effect in June 2025, placing 3Play Media at the forefront of helping organizations meet new captioning and audio description requirements in multiple languages.

Built on state-of-the-art AI models and workflows, these solutions enable organizations to automate their media localization processes, allowing them to expand globally faster and more cost-effectively while maintaining quality. Whether you require subtitles, dubs, or accessibility services for your video content, businesses can leverage 3Play Media’s global offering for distribution across the globe – whether you have a full original series or a quick training video.

Josh Miller, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of 3Play Media, stated, “In our conversations with numerous content publishers and localization buyers, a recurring theme emerged: they need to be ready to comply with EAA requirements quickly while maintaining quality. Our AI-enabled solutions can be deeply integrated into your supply chain, positioning businesses to meet growth goals and the upcoming EAA requirements efficiently.”

3Play Media processes captioning and audio description for thousands of files every day with turnarounds ranging from days to hours, underpinned by a large distributed workforce. “It was just a matter of time before we expanded this proprietary model to languages outside of the U.S. and to additional services like subtitling and dubbing,” added Chris Antunes, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of 3Play Media. Adding linguists across the globe to their patented marketplace will allow 3Play Media to build global language support for subtitles, dubbing, and accessibility services with the same scale and speed as its English solutions.

To help accelerate customer adoption, 3Play Media is already working closely with a select group of charter customers that are eager to evolve their localization and accessibility workflows. Gaia, one such customer, is partnering with 3Play Media to make their French and German video content accessible for EAA compliance. “As a long-time customer, we rely on the consistent high quality that 3Play delivers and we trust them to support the new languages in an innovative, cost-effective way,” said Lorraine Lynch, Head of Digital Operations at Gaia, Inc.

3Play Media will be demoing its latest innovations in subtitling, dubbing, transcription, and audio description at an exclusive webinar on April 15, 2025. 

For an early preview, 3Play Media will be doing hourly demos throughout the week of the NAB conference (April 5-9, 2025 in Las Vegas) at their booth #W4115.

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Elisa Lewis is a Senior Marketing Manager at 3Play Media, where she leads content and brand strategy. She is passionate about accessibility, storytelling, and building connections through communication.

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Boston, Mass., February 4, 2025 – 3Play Media, the leading media accessibility and localization provider in North America, today announced the promotion of two key executives to its C-suite, strengthening the company’s leadership team as it continues to innovate and expand its solutions. Lily Bond has been promoted to Chief Growth Officer, and Dan Caddigan has been elevated to Chief Technology Officer.

“These strategic appointments reflect our commitment to leading innovation in the media accessibility and localization space while scaling to meet the growing needs of our customers,” said Josh Miller, Co-CEO and Co-founder of 3Play Media. “As we continue to develop new solutions that combine AI technology with human expertise, having strong leadership across growth, technology, and innovation is crucial for our customers and the broader media ecosystem, and these two individuals have proven time and time again that they are the strategic thinkers and doers that we want leading our team.”

Caddigan joined 3Play Media in September 2021 as VP of Engineering, coming from Indigo, where he was a member of the founding technology team and helped scale the function from 3-200+. He brings extensive expertise in AI and building best-in-class engineering teams to his expanded role as CTO. He will lead the company’s technology strategy and innovation initiatives, focusing on advancing 3Play Media’s AI-enabled product suite.

“These strategic appointments reflect our commitment to leading innovation in the media accessibility and localization space, while scaling to meet the growing needs of our customers.”

Bond, who joined 3Play Media in March 2014 and most recently served as SVP of Marketing, brings substantial industry knowledge and nearly 11 years of company experience to her new role. As Chief Growth Officer, she will lead marketing, business development, and go-to-market initiatives, driving the company’s growth strategy across multiple channels and markets.

“Both Lily and Dan bring exceptional expertise and strategic vision to their expanded roles,” said Chris Antunes, Co-CEO and Co-founder of 3Play Media. “Lily’s deep understanding of our market, ongoing legislative measures, and customers, combined with Dan’s technical innovation leadership, will be instrumental in delivering the next generation of solutions that our customers need to scale their media localization and accessibility efforts effectively.”

These executive promotions come as 3Play Media continues to expand its product suite, including recent launches of AI-enabled dubbing, audio description, and captioning solutions designed to help organizations meet expanding global growth initiatives and accessibility requirements for media content while maintaining quality and managing costs.

About 3Play Media

3Play Media is an integrated media accessibility and localization platform with patented solutions for closed captioning, transcription, live captioning, audio description, dubbing, and subtitling. 3Play Media combines AI with human review to provide innovative, highly accurate services at scale. Customers span multiple industries, including media & entertainment, corporate, ecommerce, fitness, higher education, government, and eLearning.

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AI-Enabled Accessibility Solutions Built to Aid ADA Compliance

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Register for ACCESS 2024 [Free Virtual Accessibility Conference]

3Play’s 2024 ACCESS conference is just around the corner!

At this year’s ACCESS, we’re gathering influential accessibility leaders, experts, and professionals across a variety of industries. 

Together, we’ll explore challenges, learn how to provide actionable solutions, and discover all the latest trends, innovations, and best practices in accessibility.

We have an exciting lineup of speakers spread out over concurrent sessions and across three tracks:

• Amplify: Focus on the advocacy, policy, and global impact of accessibility.
• Act: Highlight organizational integration and practical application of accessibility.
• Advance: Discover innovative techniques and emerging technologies in accessibility.

Read on to learn more about what you can expect and who’s speaking at this year’s ACCESS conference at 3Play.

ACCESS 2024’s Exclusive Collaboration with Two Blind Brothers

This year, 3Play Media is collaborating with Two Blind Brothers to offer a limited edition “Shop Blind” experience for all registrants leading up to ACCESS 2024.

Two Blind Brothers makes ultra-soft clothing and gifts for the sole purpose of funding blindness research. 100% of their profits go back to research for eye disease through Foundation Fighting Blindness. The company also hires blind workers through organizations like Industries for the Blind to help make their items.

All 2024 ACCESS conference registrants will receive a 10% discount code valid through May 1st!

What to Expect at 3Play’s 2024 ACCESS Conference

Day One

We’re kicking things off on Tuesday, April 30th, with an opening keynote by Neil Milliken, Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion at Atos. 

Drawing from his experience, Neil will delve into how accessibility can serve both as a cornerstone of organizational culture and a catalyst for innovation. Neil offers a fresh perspective on how businesses can transcend mere compliance and strategically embed accessibility into their fundamental operations.

After Neil’s keynote, we’ll break out into concurrent tracks, with sessions exploring “Advocating for #SafeDeafAI Regulations”, “Grassroots Strategies for Building Buy-In for Digital Access”, 3Play’s “State of Automatic Speech Recognition” report, and more.

Break time! Enjoy a pause in programming with an inclusive dance session led by Marisa Hamamoto of Infinite Flow. Infinite Flow is an award-winning Los Angeles-based nonprofit and professional dance company that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with diverse, intersectional identities with a mission to create a more inclusive world, one dance at a time.

We finish off Day One of 3Play’s 2024 ACCESS conference with an ending keynote, “ACCESS in Focus: Privacy, Security, & Ethical AI.” This panel session features industry leaders from AT&T, Fable, the GAAD Foundation, and 3Play Media as they unravel the complex intersection of accessibility, data privacy, security, and responsible AI. In this dynamic dialogue, our panel will confront questions shaping the future of technology with accessibility as their guiding compass. 

Day Two

We’ll jump right into our second day of 3Play’s 2024 ACCESS conference on Wednesday, May 1st, with a dynamic keynote by Katy Talikowska, CEO of The Valuable 500. In “The Power of Authentic Disability Representation,” Katy will discuss why authentic disability representation is not merely a moral imperative but a strategic business necessity.

Moving right along, we’ll break out into our respective tracks with sessions on “Accessible Brand”, “Holistic Accessibility Management and the Banyan Tree”, “Enhancing Accessibility for Deaf People through Augmented Reality”, and more.

Next, take a breather and enjoy a poetry performance by Jjjjjerome Ellis. Jjjjjerome is a disabled artist who stutters. Through music, performance, writing, video, and photography, Jjjjjerome asks what stuttering can teach us about justice.

Finally, we end ACCESS 2024 with a special interview with acclaimed writer and performer, Ryan Haddad. Throughout the interview, Ryan will perform segments of his autobiographical Dark Disabled Stories.

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Meet the ACCESS 2024 Conference Speakers

As one of North America’s leading accessibility conferences, 3Play’s ACCESS includes an incredible lineup of accessibility thought leaders across industries. Here’s just some of the speakers you can expect to see at our 2024 ACCESS conference:

Joe Devon

Co-Founder & Chair – GAAD Foundation

Pronouns: he/him

Joe Devon is a technology entrepreneur and web accessibility advocate. He co-founded Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) and serves as the Chair of the GAAD Foundation, focusing on promoting digital accessibility and inclusive design. Joe also explores AI’s potential to revolutionize digital accessibility, developing AI solutions to enhance online experiences for people with disabilities.

Brenden Gilbert

Technology Leader and Accessibility Advocate

Pronouns: he/him

Brenden Gilbert’s 20+ year journey as a Technology Leader and Accessibility Advocate is rooted in his mother’s  strong  belief in his abilities.

As a Deaf person, he’s experienced the challenges of a world that doesn’t consider the needs of people like him.  His mother never allowed these challenges to define him and  constantly reminded him that he could achieve anything he set his mind to.

His experience spans multiple roles at companies such as IBM, Meta, Convo Communications, VSL Labs, and Tive Technology. Today, Brenden is driven to create a world where everyone can thrive. He collaborates with companies to revolutionize accessibility through technology and loves to speak on various technical and accessibility topics.

Marisa Hamamoto

Founder – Infinite Flow Dance

Pronouns: she/her

Marisa Hamamoto is the first professional dancer named People Magazine “Women Changing the World.” A leading authority on disability inclusion and building a culture of belonging, Marisa was recently named LinkedIn Top Voice, and has been featured on Good Morning America, NBC Today, Forbes, Fast Company, amongst other media outlets. As a sought-after international speaker and performing artist, Marisa has shared the stage with Tim Cook at Apple HQ’s Steve Jobs Theater, and her clients and partners include Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Red Bull, Deloitte, adidas, PayPal, Farmers Insurance, Kaiser Permenente, among other forward-thinking brands. Marisa is a stroke survivor, a late-diagnosed Autistic, and a proud fourth-generation Japanese American. She is the founder of Infinite Flow, an award-winning dance company and nonprofit that employs disabled and nondisabled dancers with a mission to create a more inclusive world, one dance at a time. Marisa is bilingual and bicultural. She completed her BA & MA from Keio University, Tokyo.

Kate Kalcevich

Head of Accessibility Innovation – Fable

Pronouns: she/her

Kate Kalcevich started as a digital accessibility practitioner in 2001. Since then she’s led design teams, managed products, and built accessibility programs. Kate is currently the Head of Accessibility Innovation at Fable, a leading accessibility company enabling the development of inclusive digital products. In her role at Fable, she focuses on helping large organizations practice innovative approaches to accessibility. Kate has lived experience with disability as a life-long hearing aid wearer.

AnnMarie Killian

CEO – TDI

Pronouns: she/her

AnnMarie Killian is a trailblazing leader and advocate with over 20 years of experience championing accessibility and inclusion in information communication technology (ICT). As the first Deaf woman to lead TDIforAccess (TDI), she made history and continues to pave the way for greater representation and accessibility. Prior to joining TDI, AnnMarie served as Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion at ZP Better Together, where she leveraged her expertise to drive impactful initiatives. In her role as CEO, she is deeply involved in ensuring the voice of the deaf and hard of hearing community is heard.

Susan Mazrui

Director, Global Public Policy – AT&T Services, Inc.

Pronouns: she/her

Susan Mazrui began work in Communications in 1994 at Pacific Bell in Disability Marketing. In 1998, she moved to the wireless field, where she developed corporate strategies for state and federal legal and regulatory compliance. Under her leadership, Cingular Wireless became the first national carrier to offer “talking” cellphones and establish a task force on accessibility. Mazrui worked closely with Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc. and the Hearing Loss Association of America and other industry members to address hearing aid and TTY compatibility with digital wireless handsets.

At AT&T, Mazrui was instrumental in establishing the Corporate Accessibility Technology Office which assessed over 50,000 AT&T products and services. She was the architect of AT&T’s Accessibility and Inclusion Program with cross company teams addressing the needs of deaf and disabled employees and their family members. In 2021, she received AT&T’s Connection Award recognizing significant individual achievement toward organizational priorities that demonstrate AT&T’s cultural pillars.

AT&T has consistently received scores of 100 in the Disability Equality Index and the National Organization on Disability’s Leading Disability Employer. Mazrui was named a Corporate Fellow by the Summit on Leading Diversity and inducted into the Spinal Cord Injury Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2013, she was recognized as Employee of the Year by Careers and the disABLED, and in 2014 by AT&T as a Champion of Diversity. In 2016, she received the Digital Accessibility Leadership Award from G3ict and the Stephen Garff Marriott Award for mentoring from American Foundation for the Blind. In 2019, Mazrui was honored by The Community of Connection and TDI for her work in the disability field.

She has served several terms on Federal Advisory Committees and currently serves on the board of G3ict and the World Institue on Disability. When not working, Mazrui enjoys dragon boating, trivia games, and cozy mysteries.

Neil Milliken

Vice President and Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion – Atos

Pronouns: he/him

Neil is Vice President and Global Head of Accessibility & Digital Inclusion at Atos. His role is to help organisations move from disability confidence to disability competence; setting strategy and providing governance at group level, simultaneously delivering change programmes that resulting better technology for customers and staff, embedding inclusive practice into the processes of organisations with thousands of employees and turnovers of billions. He firmly believes that accessibility and disability inclusion is a business topic and created the ESG aligned framework that Atos deploy for their accessibility program.

Korey Singleton

Deputy ADA Coordinator for Accessibility and ATI Manager- George Mason University

Pronouns: he/him

Korey Singleton is the Deputy ADA Coordinator for Accessibility and Assistive Technology Initiative (ATI) Manager for George Mason University (GMU). Operating under Mason’s Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, the ATI is tasked with guiding and implementing a university-wide strategy for addressing the information and communications technology (ICT) accessibility needs of students, staff, faculty, and visitors with disabilities. This includes providing assistive technology supports and services for individuals with disabilities, ensuring media content is accessible (i.e., captions, transcripts, audio description), reviewing websites and documents for accessibility, alternate formats for textbooks and assessments, and training. He is also an adjunct professor in the College of Education and Human Development’s Learning Design and Technology Dept. teaching web accessibility and design. His education credentials include a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering (Mechanics) from Northwestern University, Master of Education (Special Education/Assistive Technology) from George Mason University, and a PhD in Education (Learning Technologies Design Research) from George Mason University.

Katy Talikowska

CEO – The Valuable 500

Pronouns: she/her

Katy is CEO of the Valuable 500, the global business partnership of 500 companies working together to end disability exclusion. She played an instrumental role in the initiation of the Valuable 500 when she partnered with Dr Caroline Casey to launch the programme at DAVOS 2019. With over a decade of experience at AMV BBDO, Katy held leadership roles, including Chief Client Officer, Chair of BBDO EMEA Talent Engagement Council, and Head of Account Management and Managing Partner. She played a key role in the ground-breaking 2016 Maltesers Disability campaign, which garnered prestigious awards and became Maltesers’ most successful campaign in 18 years.
Katy’s expertise extends to multi-discipline communications across 25 markets and includes serving as the Global Omnicom lead for Rexona, and the Global BBDO lead for Snickers. She has been acknowledged as a Marketing Trailblazer of 2019 and has recently served as a Leadership Mentor for Disability Rights UK. More recently, Katy has made valuable contributions to the executive leadership team at PINWHEEL, a corporate sustainability company.

An exciting lineup, right? And that’s just a sampling of who you can expect at ACCESS 2024. Check out our session agenda to see which other accessibility visionaries are joining in on this year’s conference.

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BOSTON, Mass., April 2, 2024 – 3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider in North America, is pioneering an innovative human-in-the-loop AI Dubbing solution. At launch, the new AI Dubbing product combines human-edited transcripts and translations with best-in-class AI voice matching to produce a premium, cost-effective, and highly accurate audio track at scale. 

“Outside of top-tier media, the economics and timelines of content localization don’t work for most companies,” Josh Miller, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of 3Play Media, said.  “And frankly, the quality of fully automated dubbing is a brand risk for organizations trying to enter international markets. Global companies, emerging media, and publishers are looking to balance cost without sacrificing accuracy and quality.” 

“3Play Media is addressing AI Dubbing differently than the rest of the market – for the last 15 years, we have built our business on combining technology and people to produce cost-effective, quality captions, subtitles, and audio description at scale. We deeply understand the value of human-in-the-loop AI solutions, and are excited to launch an AI Dubbing product that organizations can trust,” Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Chris Antunes added. “Unlike new-to-market solutions, we also have a robust platform, integrations, and API workflows that are designed for ingesting and delivering video assets at scale, making the user experience seamless.”  

Benefits of 3Play Media’s AI Dubbing 

3Play Media’s AI Dubbing product offers exceptional quality and accuracy at a fraction of the cost and turnaround of traditional, human voice artist dubbing solutions. 3Play is uniquely situated to maximize human-in-the-loop workflows to ensure users receive the optimal combination of people and AI throughout the dubbing process. At launch, AI Dubbing will be available in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish with more languages to be added.  

AI Dubbing delivers the following functionality and benefits: 

• Easy Ordering. Upload videos for dubbing via our user-friendly platform or automatically via API or integration.
• Rapid Turnaround. Even with a human in the loop, get high-quality output in days – compared to traditional workflows taking weeks.
• Human-in-the-loop Transcription & Translation. The foundation of a great dub is an accurate source language transcript and translation, precisely timed with the speech in the source audio. 3Play Media provides the highest transcription accuracy in the market, then uses professional linguists to produce a premium script for dubbing.
• Translation Glossaries. Brand matters – and translation glossaries help protect brand voice when translating to another language. By tapping into stored translation profiles, you can reliably meet quality output across all of your orders.
• Preserve Background Music and Handle Multiple Speakers. Automated dubbing only works if the final experience doesn’t distract the viewer from the intended experience. Ensuring the background audio is preserved, and the speech elements are replaced, creates a superior experience.
• Voice Matching. Our AI Dubbing solution utilizes voice matching, which pairs the speakers in your source video with the closest synthetic voice match across a huge library of authentic, high-quality voices.  
• Human QA. We offer one final check with a human to ensure the timing, voice, phrasing, and speech rate of the dubbed track are natural.
• File Download. Upon completion of the service, easily download your dubbed tracks in whatever formats you require – or post back automatically via integration or API.

For more information on AI Dubbing, please visit www.3playmedia.com/services/localization/ai-dubbing. For those attending the NAB conference on April 14-17, 2024 in Las Vegas, please visit 3Play Media at booth W3207 for a demonstration of AI Dubbing. 

About 3Play Media

3Play Media is an integrated media accessibility platform with patented solutions for closed captioning, transcription, live captioning, audio description, and subtitling. 3Play Media combines machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and automatic speech recognition (ASR) with human review to provide innovative, highly accurate services. Customers span multiple industries, including media & entertainment, corporate, e-commerce, fitness, higher education, government, and eLearning.

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Elisa Lewis

Elisa Lewis is a Senior Marketing Manager at 3Play Media, where she leads content and brand strategy. She is passionate about accessibility, storytelling, and building connections through communication.

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Solution eliminates the need for additional live captioning hardware, delivering high-accuracy and low-latency captions to streaming platforms

BOSTON, March 29, 2023__3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today the availability of its live virtual caption encoding solution. The solution, which streamlines the live captioning workflow from listening through delivery, reduces the friction that exists for organizations and ensures an engaging audience experience.

“Captioning of live video is causing significant challenges for corporations, higher education institutions, and over-the-top (OTT) platforms that broadcast live events. There simply are not enough resources to watch carefully over every detail of a live event, especially once it has started, and there’s more need than ever to ensure accessibility is seamless. Virtual and hybrid events have proven to be pandemic-proof – in fact, according to Forrester, more than 80 percent of event leaders plan to conduct the same number or more virtual events over the next 12 months as they did last year,” Josh Miller, co-CEO and co-founder, 3Play Media said. “Our virtual caption encoding solution takes a modern approach to live captioning, simplifying captioning workflows to deliver highly accurate and low-latency captions to our customers, ensuring a seamless experience.” 

With the live virtual encoding solution, 3Play Media customers send a real-time messaging protocol (RTMP) stream to 3Play Media’s platform, where 3Play Media generates automated or professionally created captions based on the request of the customer. That stream with encoded captions is then delivered to any platform supporting RTMP streams and the decoding of CEA-608 captions, the standard captioning protocol for analog television.

The benefits of 3Play Media’s live virtual caption encoding solution include: 

• Intuitive event scheduling interface. Many solutions still require customers to call and schedule their events manually. 
• Low latency captions. Captions will appear at about a 2-second delay versus the broadcast standard of 4-6 seconds after the visual content, ensuring an audience using captions can stay in real-time with the content.

• Live Auto Caption failover. In the unfortunate and rare case a human captioner loses their connection, our patent-pending solution will automatically failover to ASR captions.

• Send captions anywhere. Captions can be sent to any streaming platforms that support RTMP-based streaming protocols and decoding of CEA-608 captions. 

• Post-event that guarantees 99 percent accuracy. After the event, the raw transcript of the entire event can be downloaded and upgraded to guarantee almost 100 percent accuracy. 

Live virtual caption encoding is a new product offering made possible by 3Play Media’s acquisition of Captionmax last year, with more live innovation to come throughout the year. 

About 3Play Media

3Play Media is an integrated video accessibility platform with patented solutions for closed captioning, transcription, live captioning, audio description, and subtitling. 3Play Media combines machine learning (ML) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) with human review to provide innovative, highly accurate services. Customers span multiple industries, including media & entertainment, corporate, e-commerce, fitness, higher education, government, and e-learning. In 2022, 3Play Media acquired Captionmax and NCC, extending their support for broadcast, post-production, and Canadian markets.

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Phil LeClare

phil.leclare@3playmedia.com 

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Say hello to 3Play Media’s Access Player!

Making your media accessible, interactive, and SEO-friendly just got a whole lot easier.

What is the Access Player?

3Play Media’s Access Player enables you to publish fully accessible media playback to your website with no development effort.

The Access Player works with your existing media player of choice, integrating additional accessibility capabilities, such as closed captions, interactive transcripts, and audio description—all in the same interface.

In addition to increased accessibility for your users, you’ll also get SEO benefits, making your content more discoverable.

As a publisher, you can create one accessible experience using a convenient user interface or programmatically publish accessible experiences across all of your content.

There are two versions of the Access Player: Access Player and Access Player+. With Access Player+, you’ll get all of the accessibility features available in the Access Player plus the ability to customize the look, support multi-language experiences and increased publishing volume, and more.

The Access Player is currently available in beta. For more information, please fill out this interest form.

Core Features and Benefits

• Fully Accessible Playback Capabilities: Media players today often support captions, subtitles, and maybe multiple audio tracks, but they don’t make it easy to search for content being spoken in a video, support audio description, or connect an SEO-friendly transcript. With 3Play Media’s Access Player, you make it possible for your audience to consume your content in a way suitable for their needs.
• Interactive Transcript: Make it easy for your audience to find content in your video or audio, control the playback speed, and reinforce comprehension with a fully synced interactive transcript.
• Brandable: Your company’s commitment to accessibility is a reflection of your brand’s values. Be proud of the accessible experience you create by making it your own with our visual customizations.
• Multi-Language Support: We know that your users don’t just speak English. The Access Player can detect the preferred language of your audience and support multiple languages with one video player.

Why use the Access Player?

Generating accessible and legally compliant content is paramount. However, publishing multiple versions of content—one accessible with captions or audio descriptions and one not—creates overhead costs and is prone to mistakes. A single digital experience for all users, with or without disabilities, creates a better experience for everyone involved. The 3Play Access Player is the best way to reach and connect with your entire audience, regardless of their needs.

Additionally, 3Play Media’s Access Player enables you to publish fully accessible media playback to your website with no development effort, reducing the cost and effort of publishing accessible content.

The Access Player also works with both audio-only and video content, making it the perfect solution for any kind of media.

The Access Player in Action

Try out the Access Player below! Press play on 3Play Media’s Allied Podcast episode with Michele Landis and watch as the transcript follows the audio. To jump to a specific point in the audio, click on a word in the transcript.

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Becoming the New Market Leader with Chris Antunes and Josh Miller [Allied Podcast]

We’re excited to share some big news! 

You may already know that 3Play Media welcomed Captionmax and NCC to the family earlier this year. This acquisition made 3Play Media the new market leader, allowing us to provide a robust suite of high quality, reliable media accessibility solutions across industries.

For over six months, the teams from 3Play Media and Captionmax have been hard at work integrating the incredible people and services that delight our customers each day. And now, we’re thrilled to announce that we’re operating under one brand: 3Play Media! 

Why Captionmax is now 3Play Media

Founded in 1993 as a one-man operation, Captionmax grew and nurtured close relationships in the enterprise, broadcast, and streaming media markets for nearly 30 years. Captionmax’s staff includes passionate, long-tenured captioners and account managers with a deep knowledge of closed captioning and other critical media accessibility services. This experience, along with Captionmax’s advancements in live broadcast technology, enables 3Play Media to further deepen its relationships with media organizations. 

During both the acquisition and integration processes, it was clear that Captionmax and 3Play Media have always been intrinsically aligned on the things that matter most: customer delight, quality service, innovative solutions, and a passion to make media accessible to all. Unifying under one brand enables a centralized experience for any media accessibility services our customers may need now or in the future.

 Listen to 3Play co-founders Chris and Josh discuss our shared values on Allied  

What does this mean for you?

Captionmax is now 3Play Media, but the service and quality you love most about us isn’t going anywhere. Because we’ve not only integrated services, but also teams, customers can expect to maintain their usual workflow and point of contact, without any service interruptions or drops in product quality.

National Captioning Canada (NCC), the largest live captioning provider in Canada and a subsidiary of Captionmax, has been rebranded to 3Play Media Canada, which will remain focused exclusively on serving the Canadian media accessibility market.

As 3Play’s media accessibility solutions and service offerings expand in the future, our staff will continue to work alongside customers to transition to the most efficient solutions for their media accessibility needs.

What other changes can I expect?

We are thrilled to provide our customers with a greater suite of premium media accessibility services. We now offer everything from an array of new options in captioning and audio description, to platform integrations and exciting features powered by 3Play Media’s innovative technology.

To celebrate our shared brand, 3Play Media is hosting a virtual public event open to all on Thursday, September 29th at 1:00 PM ET. See how you can do more with 3Play, and how our integration makes us the all-star media accessibility partner you’ve been looking for.

At our 2022 ACCESS conference, 3Play Media co-founders and co-CEOs Chris Antunes and Josh Miller sat down for a special bonus episode of Allied Podcast, where they outlined their vision for the future of 3Play following the acquisition of Captionmax. Listen on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, or read the full transcript!

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As podcast platforms stare down litigation for lacking transcripts, accessibility leader launches new solution that increases user flexibility and transcription accuracy

BOSTON, Mass., March 24, 2022 – 3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider, announced today that it has extended its world-leading professional transcription services to the growing podcast industry. With its technology, 3Play Media solves an immediate gap for podcast producers who recognize that the high error rate of machine transcription jeopardizes the integrity of their content experience. The podcast solution is already being used by 3Play Media customers, including This American Life. 

“3Play Media has always supported transcription for audio-only files, but this new solution for podcasters represents an entry into an underserved market of podcast creators who’ve been largely left to their own devices to solve their production and publishing workflows,” Josh Miller, co-CEO and co-founder, 3Play Media, said. “Time is money in the content industry, and our solution makes it possible to have the high-quality transcript produced in the background while producers focus on what they do best.”

With large podcast platforms facing legal action over inaccessibility, podcasters have shifted their focus to becoming more accessible by providing transcripts. Without transcripts, podcasts are completely inaccessible to the d/Deaf and hard of hearing community, which makes up 20% of the US population. Using 3Play Media’s platform, podcasters can upload their audio files seamlessly via the 3Play platform, integration, or API, and a high quality transcript will be returned within 24 hours. Progressive Delivery allows for the automatic speech recognition (ASR) transcript to be delivered immediately, followed by the styled and 99%+ accurate transcript when it is complete. This enables producers to ensure access and to not delay publishing their podcasts, regardless of frequency. 

3Play Media is the only transcription provider which fully supports custom style guides, which many podcasts, including This American Life, use. This enables podcasters to provide special instructions – like speaker labels and unique grammar requests – that support brand requirements. Transcripts can be delivered via API or downloaded in any file format users prefer so it can be copied onto a webpage or uploaded to their podcast hosting platform. 3Play Media is also the only provider to guarantee its turnaround deadlines with the added flexibility of Progressive Delivery. 

For more information on Podcast Transcription, visit https://www.3playmedia.com/services/podcast-transcription/ or attend 3Play Media’ virtual event, ACCESS, on March 30th.

About 3Play Media

3Play Media is an integrated media accessibility platform with patented solutions for closed captioning, transcription, live captioning, audio description, and subtitling. 3Play Media combines machine learning (ML) and automatic speech recognition (ASR) with human review to provide innovative, highly accurate services. Customers span multiple industries, including media & entertainment, corporate, ecommerce, fitness, higher education, government, and elearning.

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Elisa Lewis

Elisa Lewis is a Senior Marketing Manager at 3Play Media, where she leads content and brand strategy. She is passionate about accessibility, storytelling, and building connections through communication.

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