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Pricing for 3Play Media Human Captioning Services

This article applies to: Video Accessibility and Captioning

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The chart below details 3Play Media human captioning pricing effective February 2020.

Human Captioning

Identified via tagging in Video on Demand and account owner approval.

The vendor has surcharges for poor audio quality. See "Difficult Audio Surcharge" in the table below.
Service Per Minute Per Hour
Standard Turnaround (4 days) $1.85 $111.00
Expedited Turnaround Surcharge (2 days) $2.25 $135.00
Rush Turnaround Surcharge (1 day) $2.75 $165.00
Same Day Turnaround Surcharge (8 hours) $3.85 $231.00
Two Hour Turnaround Surcharge (2 hours) $6.85 $411.00
Difficult Audio Surcharge $2.85 $171.00
Extended Turnaround Discount (10 days) $1.75 $105.00
Transcription Only (4 days) $1.75 $105.00

All human captioning service levels include transcription. For full details on delivery turnaround times, refer to the vendor’s Turnaround SLA.

Spanish Transcription and Captioning

Service Per Minute Per Hour
Standard Turnaround $4.50 $270.00

Alignment Service

Service Per Minute Per Hour
English $1.00 $60.00
Spanish $1.00 $60.00

Translation Service

Service Per Minute Per Hour
Gengo Translation Standard (crowd-sourced translation) $0.07** --
Gengo Translation Pro $0.14** --
DotSUB Translation -- $12 - $26*

*   Rate may vary by language and service level. ** There are usually 100-120 words spoken per minute of video.

Caption Encoding

Service Per Minute Per Hour
Caption Encoding $10.00

Audio Description

Audio description services provide a narration of visual elements of the media in the audio soundtrack. Users who would like to request audio description for Video on Demand content should contact the IT Service Desk. Service Standard (per minute)* Extended (per minute)** Audio Description $7.50 $12.00

*   Standard audio description provides a description of visual elements within natural pauses in the video's soundtrack. ** Extended audio description extends the length of the original video to allow much fuller description for blind and low-vision users. Not available through Cornell's Video on Demand integration.

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