Accessible Video for Every Learner at MIT
MIT has partnered with 3Play Media for 15 years to ensure world-class content reaches everyone, everywhere.
Maximize Accessibility & Compliance at Scale
Every service below is available to all MIT departments, from a single lecture to your entire video library.
Captioning & Transcription
Our closed captioning solution uses AI + human review to guarantee over 99% accuracy for compliance and student accommodations.
Real-Time Captioning
Our real-time captioning solution provides high quality accommodations for students and integrates directly with tools like AIM and Zoom.
Affordable Audio Description
We use AI to make audio description affordable and user-friendly to publish. We have options for AI scripting or human scripting with AI voices.
Introducing Pulse: See your entire video library's compliance status at a glance.
Universities have thousands of videos scattered across dozens of platforms. Pulse audits all of it — scoring every file for caption accuracy and audio description gaps — then automatically routes what needs human attention. The result is a clear, defensible compliance strategy without the manual chaos.
Pulse scans your video library across platforms and scores every file for compliance risk.
Compliant content publishes automatically. High-risk files go straight to human remediation.
Real-time visibility into where you stand — and what it will cost to get fully compliant.
Pricing for MIT
Negotiated rates for all MIT departments. No upfront commitment, just pay as you go.
English Captioning & Transcription
| Services + Features | Price |
|---|---|
| Captioning + Transcription Processing Pay as you go (4 calendar day turnaround): prorated to the run-time duration (minimum charge per file is 1 minute) |
$102 per recorded hour ($1.70 per minute)* |
* Extremely difficult audio (i.e. poor recording, loud background noise) will incur a surcharge of $0.85/min
Turnaround Options
| Additional Turnaround Options | Price |
|---|---|
| 10 Calendar Day Turnaround | $93 per recorded hour ($1.55 per minute) |
| 48 Hour Turnaround | $126 per recorded hour ($2.10 per minute) |
| 24 Hour Turnaround | $147 per recorded hour ($2.45 per minute) |
| 8 Hour Turnaround | $210 per recorded hour ($3.50 per minute) |
| 2 Hour Turnaround | $330 per recorded hour ($5.50 per minute) |
Real-Time Captioning
| Services + Features | Price |
|---|---|
| Live Professional Captioning |
$150 per hour ($2.50 per minute) |
| Real-time captioning using automatic speech recognition | $36 per hour ($0.60 per minute) |
Spanish Captioning & Transcription
| Services + Features | Price |
|---|---|
| Pay As You Go 4 calendar day turnaround: prorated to the run-time duration of each file |
$192 per recorded hour ($3.20 per minute) |
| 10 Calendar Day Turnaround | $183 per recorded hour ($3.05 per minute) |
| 48 Hour Turnaround | $216 per recorded hour ($3.60 per minute) |
| 24 Hour Turnaround | $237 per recorded hour ($3.95 per minute) |
| 8 Hour Turnaround | $300 per recorded hour ($5.00 per minute) |
Transcript Alignment (Captioning Only)
You can upload your videos along with their transcripts and we’ll synchronize the text with the media using automated speech technology. This will give you access to all of the products and services that come with our standard transcription and captioning service. This service is available in 15 languages.
| Automated Transcript Alignment (Captioning Only) | Price |
|---|---|
| Pay as You Go No file minimums – prorated to the exact duration of each file |
$51 per recorded hour ($0.85 per minute) |
Audio Description
Audio description is an accommodation for blind and low-vision viewers that narrates the critical visual information in a video to provide context, clarify speakers, and articulate visual elements. We offer standard and extended description. With the standard description service, descriptions fit into natural pauses in the video’s audio track. With our extended service, the descriptions are not constrained to the natural pauses of a video. The extended service inserts pauses in the video to make room for descriptions, as needed.
| Audio Description (Standard) | Price |
|---|---|
| Standard Audio Description 5 Calendar Day Turnaround, Prorated to the run-time duration of each file |
$420 per recorded hour ($7.00 per minute) |
| Expedited Turnaround for Standard 2 Calendar Day Turnaround |
$510 per recorded hour ($8.50 per minute) |
| Rush Turnaround for Standard 1 Calendar Day Turnaround |
$600 per recorded hour ($10.00 per minute) |
| Audio Description (Extended) | Price |
|---|---|
| Extended Audio Description 5 Calendar Day Turnaround, Prorated to the run-time duration of each file |
$660 per recorded hour ($11.00 per minute) |
| Expedited Turnaround for Extended 2 Calendar Day Turnaround |
$750 per recorded hour ($12.50 per minute) |
| Rush Turnaround for Extended 1 Calendar Day Turnaround |
$840 per recorded hour ($14.00 per minute) |
| Upgrade from Standard to Extended 5 Calendar Day Turnaround |
$480 per recorded hour ($8.00 per minute) |