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3Play Media, the industry leader in video accessibility and localization, today announced the launch of Pulse, a first-of-its-kind solution designed to eliminate compliance gaps by centralizing accessibility governance across an organization’s entire video ecosystem.

3Play Media today announced a comprehensive rebrand reflecting its transformation from a video accessibility tech company into a leader in video localization and global accessibility solutions, driven by breakthrough AI technology that delivers unprecedented quality control and customization.

3Play Media, the leading media accessibility and localization provider in North America, today announced the appointment of Steve Nee as Chief Financial Officer. Nee joins the company's executive leadership team as 3Play Media continues to scale its AI-enabled solutions and expand its market reach in the global media accessibility and localization markets.

While Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technologies are maturing and becoming more sophisticated, human review remains essential for meeting accessibility standards, according to the latest State of ASR report by 3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider in North America, released today.

3Play Media, the industry leader in media accessibility solutions, today announced the launch of its global linguist marketplace along with its cutting-edge, AI-Enabled accessibility and localization solutions for video-forward businesses across media & entertainment and enterprise. This timely release comes as the European Accessibility Act (EAA) is set to take effect in June 2025, placing 3Play Media at the forefront of helping organizations meet new captioning and audio description requirements in multiple languages.

3Play Media, the leading media accessibility and localization provider in North America, today announced the promotion of two key executives to its C-suite, strengthening the company's leadership team as it continues to innovate and expand its solutions. Lily Bond has been promoted to Chief Growth Officer, and Dan Caddigan has been elevated to Chief Technology Officer.

3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider in North America, announced today the launch of a comprehensive package of AI-enabled video accessibility tools designed to help universities comply with expanded ADA Title II regulations before the 2026 enforcement deadline. The patented, industry-first solutions suite includes AI-enabled audio description, captioning, and live captioning.

After a year of profound improvement in accuracy, ASR providers are doubling down on improving the accuracy of their solutions and focusing on their differentiation, according to the latest State of ASR report by 3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider in North America, released today.

3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider in North America, is pioneering an innovative human-in-the-loop AI Dubbing solution. At launch, the new AI Dubbing product combines human-edited transcripts and translations with best-in-class AI voice matching to produce a premium, cost-effective, and highly accurate audio track at scale.

ASR technology has never been as accurate as it is today thanks to advances in artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report from 3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider, released today. The annual State of ASR study analyzes the general state of speech-to-text technology as it applies to the task of captioning and transcription.

3Play Media, the world’s leading media accessibility platform, announced today an expanded partnership with Brightcove (NASDAQ: BCOV), the world’s most trusted streaming technology, that allows customers to access and order services – including closed captioning, live captions, audio description, and video localization services – from directly within their existing video production workflow. This powerful new combination of Brightcove and 3Play Media enables brands and businesses to make their video content more accessible to all audiences, using premium technology and professional expertise to assist in achieving international accessibility standards.

3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today the availability of its live virtual caption encoding solution. The solution, which streamlines the live captioning workflow from listening through delivery, reduces the friction that exists for organizations and ensures an engaging audience experience.

3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today that as part of its acquisition of Captionmax, a leader in live and recorded captioning, localization, and audio description, it has been fully integrated into the 3Play Media brand. National Captioning Canada (NCC), the largest live captioning provider in Canada and a subsidiary of Captionmax, was also acquired and has been rebranded as 3Play Media Canada.

3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider, released its annual State of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) report. The study looks at the general state of speech-to-text technology and evaluates how 9 major speech recognition engines perform at the task of captioning and transcription. According to the study, the accuracy of the technology has improved measurably since the company’s last report, published in January of 2021.

3Play Media, the leading media accessibility provider, announced today that it has extended its world-leading professional transcription services to the growing podcast industry. With its technology, 3Play Media solves an immediate gap for podcast producers who recognize that the high error rate of machine transcription jeopardizes the integrity of their content experience. The podcast solution is already being used by 3Play Media customers, including This American Life.

3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today the acquisition of Captionmax, a leader in live and recorded captioning, localization, and audio description services. The acquisition includes National Captioning Canada (NCC), the largest live captioning provider in Canada and a subsidiary of Captionmax, providing exciting geographic expansion for 3Play Media into the Canadian market. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today the availability of Live Professional Captioning, becoming the first captioning platform to offer professional captioning by a human with auto captioning failover. The new platform is the first major technology innovation in the live captioning market in years and revitalizes the industry, which has historically been reliant on expensive and manual, outdated processes.

3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today that it has partnered with TransPerfect, the world's largest provider of language and technology solutions for global business, to extend 3Play Media’s multilingual transcription and translation offerings. The partnership integrates TransPerfect directly into 3Play Media’s standard platform-based ordering workflow to provide localization services that align with customer expectations for quality and turnaround.

3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today that it has hired Jill Brooks, former President and Chief Operating Officer at the National Captioning Institute (NCI), to lead its live video captioning efforts.

3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today the addition of two new members to its Board of Directors. David Mendels, former CEO and President of Brightcove, and Frances West, former Chief Accessibility Officer at IBM, bring critically relevant experience that will help guide 3Play Media through its next stage of growth.