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RAMP Announces Web Closed Captioning Solution
Wednesday 23. February 2011 - Explosive growth of online video creating new challenges and opportunities for Web publishers. RAMP Web Closed Captioning delivers end-to-end solution.
RAMP, the industrys leading Content Optimization platform for major online media publishers, today announced the launch of its end-to-end Web Closed Captioning solution. Leveraging RAMPs patented MediaCloud TM platform, RAMP provides online video publishers with highly accurate, timecoded transcripts that can be easily integrated into popular video content management systems.
With the explosive growth of online video new challenges have also arisen. On October 9, 2010, President Obama signed the 21st Video Accessibility Act into law, requiring broadcasters to include closed captions with Web video content. In addition, RAMP published a study in 2010 showing that the inclusion of captions, tags and video search increased video consumption by as much as 300%.
RAMPs Web Closed Captioning is a powerful end-to-end solution including:
Simple, inexpensive per minute transcription pricing
Flexible content ingestion via uploads and feeds, as well as integration with popular video CMS solutions such as Brightcove and thePlatform
Highly accurate, human edited timecoded transcripts
Audio Text Alignment (“ATA”) of existing broadcast caption files and scripts to create timecoded transcripts
Flexible output formats including DFXP, SubRip, SMIL and more
“Online video continues to present new opportunities and challenges for publishers,” said Tom Wilde, CEO of RAMP. “RAMPs award-winning platform is perfectly suited to deliver the Webs best and most cost effective solution for the Web Closed Captioning requirement, and across our customer base we have demonstrated that advanced video end-user features drive more consumption.”
RAMPs patented MediaCloud technology was developed from 20 years and $100MM in government R&D in the field of speech recognition, natural language processing, and semantic search. MediaCloud is software-as-a-service that ingests and indexes audio, video, text and image content for its customers, and provides solutions that deliver improved content discovery, user engagement, and monetization of premium content.