For over 26 years, broadcasters, universities, law firms and marketing teams across the USA have trusted ATS for closed captioning services that hold up under scrutiny. Our closed captioning company delivers ADA and FCC compliant video captioning, SDH subtitles and caption files in whatever format your platform asks for — timed, checked and signed off by real people, not software.
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Corporate videos, webinars, product demos, recorded events. We time every caption to the frame, respect reading speed limits, and hand back files that drop straight into your player without a fight.
FCC caption quality rules aren’t suggestions, and we’ve been meeting them since long before streaming existed. CEA-608/708, SCC, MCC — delivered to spec for Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Vimeo and broadcast air.
Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, plus translated subtitles in over 20 languages. Speaker IDs, sound cues, music descriptions — the details that turn a transcript into a real caption track.
CART writers for lectures, town halls, depositions and streamed conferences. Someone experienced is listening in real time, so your audience isn’t reading a delayed guess at what was just said.
Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 AA compliant captions for LMS content, MOOCs and lecture capture. We know what campus accessibility offices audit for, because we’ve been captioning for universities for decades.
ADA, Section 508, FCC and WCAG 2.1 AA — we caption to the standard your legal or accessibility team will be asked about. If an audit lands on your desk, the caption files won’t be the problem.
Captions that lag, overlap or flash past unread are worse than no captions. Ours are synced to the frame and paced for real reading speed, every line, on every file we return.
SRT, VTT, SCC, STL, TTML, DFXP, CAP, burned-in open captions. Tell us the platform and we’ll send the right file. No conversion headaches on your end, no re-uploads.
Our captioners review each file — not software. That means context is caught, sound-alike errors get spotted, and when something looks off, you know exactly who to ring about it.
No hidden elements, no “rush fee” sticker shock at checkout. Simple pricing that flexes to how you work — per video minute, per project, or a volume rate if you’re sending files every week.
Your video and audio files are securely uploaded to our encrypted cloud-based platform.
A qualified captioner transcribes, segments and time-codes your file under strict quality and confidentiality protocols.
Our Quality Analyst plays the file back line by line, checking accuracy, timing, speaker IDs and reading speed.
Your finished caption files arrive in the formats you asked for — clean, compliant and ready to upload.
Our closed captioning services start at USD $0.95per video minute, with clear, upfront pricing and no hidden fees. Rates depend on turnaround, audio quality and whether you need translated subtitles — but you’ll see the number before we start, not after. Built for teams that value accuracy, accountability and consistently high-quality human captioning.
What are closed captioning services? Closed captioning services convert the audio in a video into time-synced on-screen text that viewers can switch on or off. Beyond dialogue, proper captions include speaker identification and non-speech sound cues. Providers like American Transcription Services use trained human captioners to produce ADA and FCC compliant caption files that automated tools can’t reliably match.
What’s the difference between captions and subtitles? Captions assume the viewer can’t hear the audio, so they include sound effects, music cues and speaker labels. Subtitles assume the viewer can hear but doesn’t understand the language, so they translate dialogue only. SDH sits in between — translated subtitles that keep the accessibility cues. We produce all three.
Do you offer closed captioning in Spanish and other languages? Yes. We caption and subtitle in over 20 languages, including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Mandarin, German, Arabic, Hindi and Tagalog. Every translated file is handled by a native-speaking linguist, not machine translation, so idiom and register survive the trip. Bilingual Spanish-English videos are one of our most common requests.
Can you caption videos with mixed languages, heavy accents or cross-talk? That’s routine for us. Code-switching between English and Spanish mid-sentence, regional accents, three people talking over each other — our captioners tag language changes, attribute speakers correctly and flag anything genuinely inaudible rather than inventing a guess. Speech recognition software tends to fail badly on exactly these files.
What caption file formats do you deliver? SRT, VTT, SCC, STL, TTML, DFXP, CAP and burned-in open captions. Tell us where the video is going — YouTube, Vimeo, Brightcove, Kaltura, an LMS, or broadcast air — and we’ll send the correct spec the first time. Multiple formats of the same file cost nothing extra.
Are your captions ADA and FCC compliant? Yes. Our captions meet ADA and Section 508 requirements, WCAG 2.1 Level AA success criteria, and the FCC’s four caption quality standards for accuracy, synchronicity, completeness and placement. This is what universities, government agencies and broadcasters come to us for.
How much do closed captioning services cost? Professional closed captioning starts at USD $0.95 per video minute, depending on turnaround, audio quality and whether translated subtitles are involved. Pricing is upfront with no surprise rush fees, and can be structured per minute or per project to fit how your team works.
Do you provide closed captioning services near me? Yes. We deliver closed captioning near me searches across every US state — New York, California, Texas, Illinois, Florida, Washington and everywhere between. Files move over a secure encrypted platform, so a client in Seattle gets the same turnaround as one three blocks from our office.
What is your turnaround time for captioning? Standard caption files are typically delivered overnight, synced and ready to upload. The date we commit to is the date you get it, even when the audio is rough. Rush and same-day options are available — send us the deadline and we’ll tell you straight away whether we can hit it.
Are your captioning services confidential and secure? Yes. All video files are uploaded to an encrypted, cloud-based platform, covered by NDAs and restricted access, and transferred securely. Unreleased broadcast content, internal training material and sensitive legal video are handled under the same confidentiality protocols as our medical transcription work.
