Captioning services do not simply mean subtitles for foreign movies. There are many reasons why you might need professional captioning, be it for your videos, live streaming, or office meetings.

As the UK’s leading live captioning experts, we at 121 provide three basic types of captioning services which cover any occasion you might imagine.

Around 1-in-6 people in the UK suffer from hearing loss, so there’s a good chance you know someone or even work with someone who has difficulty hearing.

As a business, you need to be certain you are complying with discrimination laws and providing equal access to both staff and clients.

As an employee with hearing difficulties, then you’ll know teleconferences, meetings, and seminars can be a challenge.

Live captioning offers access to clients and colleagues who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Events, conference calls, and meetings are all made easier for everyone, allowing people to understand and participate fully in the conversation.

And it’s not just for the hard of hearing.

With our truly global business world now connected online, non-native English speakers may have trouble understating accents or colloquialisms.

We don’t see deaf students, we only see students.

It is every student’s right to be able to understand and participate in real time what is being taught in their class.

Working regularly with Disabled Students Allowances (DSAs) assessors, we use high-speed streaming to allow deaf students to participate effectively on their course.

By writing live captions at a rate of 300 words per minute, deaf and hard of hearing students can have an equal learning experience with their peers, asking important questions, and keeping up with the rest of the class.

This service is also carried out discreetly for those who do not wish to draw attention to their struggle to hear.

Offline captioning is used for videos or programmes which are not broadcast live.

Most people are familiar with this type of captioning as used in subtitles for movies or YouTube videos.

There are two main types of offline captions; closed and open.

Closed captions can be turned on and off by the viewer as needed, and are usually found in television programmes and movies. They are also searchable by Google, and as such can help with a website’s SEO.

Open captions are permanently visible on the screen and can not be turned off. Because they have to be added at the production stage of the process, they are usually more expensive.

Whether it’s for your business, personal life, or your venture into movie making, we can help with all your captioning needs.

Our professional stenographers can transcribe words as they’re spoken with a 99.8% accuracy rating.

No matter where you are in the world, we can help.

Our previous clients include giants of their industries such as Disney, Oxford University, and the BBC.

Help your company become more diverse, accessible, and attractive to clients and staff while increasing your profitability.

Contact us today if you have any questions about our captioning services.

Our friendly and professional staff will be happy to help in any way they can.