Four Things You Should Know
1. There’s a contract already
3Play Media has a contract with Virginia Association of State College & University Purchasing Professionals (VASCUPP) for discounted pricing on captioning, transcription, and audio description. This contract covers all higher education institutions, public school systems, and executive branch agencies within the state. Simply set up an account using the button below and you will be opted into the discounted pricing.
2. The prices get lower as you do more captioning
This contract has a tiered pricing model. This means that the more captioning you do with 3Play Media, the lower your per-minute rate will be. The good news is that this deal works across all participating Virginia institutions – which means that everyone benefits when more schools use 3Play.
3. 3Play Media guarantees 99% accuracy – no matter what
3Play Media provides premium quality captioning, with a guaranteed 99% accuracy rate regardless of complex content, accents, or audio quality. In fact, our measured accuracy over millions of files is 99.6%.
4. You can integrate 3Play Media with your video platform
3Play Media integrates with dozens of major video platforms, players, and lecture capture systems. This means that in most cases, you can submit videos for captioning directly from your video platform. Examples include Kaltura, YouTube, Mediasite, Panopto, Vimeo, and more.
5. You can get started right now!
To get started with 3Play Media at the special Virginia rates, simply complete the get started form and one of our account managers will reach out to set you up. Because you’re part of the Virginia contract, there are no minimum commitments – you can just dive right in.
Tiered Pricing for Virginia Institutions
The tiered pricing below covers all participating Virginia institutions. Remember, the tiered pricing works across schools, so you can work together to get lower prices.
The starting price is $1.95 per minute. After the first $100,000 (aggregated across all participating Virginia institutions) has been processed during the life of the contract, the price will automatically drop to $1.85 per minute going forward. The price will continue to drop with each subsequent tier down to $1.65 per minute after $1,000,000. The price will revert to the previous tier if $100,000 is not spent in calendar year period following a price reduction.
NOTE: These prices include speaker identification, ALL output formats, and use of the 3Play Plugin.
Closed Captioning & Transcription
| Annual Tiers Within calendar year; rates applied on going forward basis |
Price |
|---|---|
| Starting Price (4 Business Day Turnaround) Pay as you go: prorated to the run-time duration (1 minute minimum charge) |
$117 per recorded hour ($1.95 per minute) |
| Surpass $100,000 | $111 per recorded hour ($1.85 per minute) |
| Surpass $500,000 | $105 per recorded hour ($1.75 per minute) |
| Surpass $1,000,000 | $99 per recorded hour ($1.65 per minute) |
| Additional Options | Price |
| 10 Business Day Turnaround | -$9 per recorded hour DISCOUNT (-$0.15 per minute DISCOUNT) |
| 2 Business Day Turnaround | +$24 per recorded hour (+$0.40 per minute) |
| 1 Business Day Turnaround | +$54 per recorded hour (+$0.90 per minute) |
| 8 Hour Turnaround | +$120 per recorded hour (+$2.00 per minute) |
| 2 Hour Turnaround | +$300 per recorded hour (+$5.00 per minute) |
| Extremely Difficult Audio Poor recording, heavy accents, background noise, many speakers |
Included |
Spanish Captioning & Transcription
| Spanish Captioning | Price |
|---|---|
| 10 Business Day Turnaround Prorated to the run-time duration of each file |
$189 per recorded hour ($3.15 per minute) |
| 4 Business Day Turnaround | $198 per recorded hour ($3.30 per minute) |
| 1 Business Day Turnaround | $252 per recorded hour ($4.20 per minute) |
| Dual Language English & Spanish in the same file |
$258 per recorded hour ($4.30 per minute) |
Business Days vs. Calendar Days
The turnaround options listed above are based on business days. We can change the turnaround to be in calendar days/hours (i.e. 10 calendar days, 4 calendar days, 48 hours, 24 hours) for an additional charge of $0.05 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 |
$48 per recorded hour ($0.80 per minute) |
Live 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) |
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 | Price |
|---|---|
| Standard Audio Description 5 Business Day Turnaround, Prorated to the run-time duration of each file |
$420 per recorded hour ($7.00 per minute) |
| Extended Audio Description 5 Business Day Turnaround, Prorated to the run-time duration of each file |
$690 per recorded hour ($11.50 per minute) |
Computer Generated Transcription and Captioning
The accuracy of computer generated transcripts depends on input conditions, such as the number of speakers, fluency and organization of speakers, acoustic environment, recording quality, and language domain. While the average accuracy across all our content is about 85%, we can achieve 95%+ accuracy with favorable conditions. You always have the option to upgrade a file from computerized captioning to human captioning.
| Computer Generated Captioning | Price |
|---|---|
| Pay as you go | $9 per recorded hour ($0.15 per minute) |
Included Services
| Services & Features | |
|---|---|
| All caption and transcript output formats | Included |
| Indefinite storage of your captions and transcripts | Included |
| Interactive transcript and video plugins | Included |
| Integrated workflows with lecture capture and video platforms | Included |
| Captions and subtitles editor | Included |
| Video search and clipping tools | Included |
| API access | Included |