Described and Captioned Media Program Competitors

Verbit is a verbal intelligence platform leveraged by 3,000+ businesses and institutions. Our suite of voice AI solutions are used to capture everyday exchanges, better understand the information being shared and apply these insights in daily work and learning environments. By combining automatic speech recognition technology (ASR) with the expert human transcribers, Verbit has transformed a $30B transcription industry. Our proprietary technology, Captivate, unlocks the value of speech for customers. With access to live captions, transcription, translation, audio description, dubbing and note taking services, they’re meeting accessibility guidelines and working more efficiently. Whether in the classroom, the boardroom or for broadcasts of the world’s most-watched events, Verbit makes spoken words accessible and actionable. Verbit was founded in 2017.

Rev is the Investigative Platform — transforming how legal professionals, law enforcement, journalists, and researchers work with critical speech data. Unlike traditional LLMs, Rev's citations-first AI guarantees every output can be verified against original evidence — turning scattered audio, video, and documents into a case analysis you can trust. Strict confidentiality protocols ensure we never train third-party models on customer data.Since 2010, we've processed over 18 billion words from 7 million hours of human speech, developing proprietary speech recognition technology that's unmatched in transcribing complex legal terminology and challenging audio. Our models deliver 96% accurate AI transcription, with optional human review pushing accuracy to 99%+ for the cases where precision is non-negotiable. Our technology is trusted by over 1 million users, including AM Law 100 firms, the industry's leading court reporting agencies, and media publications worldwide. Our commitment to security is demonstrated through SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance — protecting the confidentiality of your most sensitive information. In 2025, Rev acquired SmartDepo, the legal industry's most trusted solution for AI-powered deposition summaries with 100% accurate page-line citations. Since 2010, Rev has been trusted by journalists and researchers to surface essential details from complex stories. That same foundation of accuracy and integrity now powers our work within the justice system — where the stakes are higher than ever. We don't just preserve every word in a case — we surface the details that can mean the difference between fairness and injustice, freedom and incarceration.

With more than 35 years of experience, VITAC, a Verbit company, is a full-service captioning and communications accessibility company, and North America’s largest provider of live and prerecorded captioning, audio description, subtitling, dubbing, and transcription products and services for the media and entertainment industry. At VITAC, we strongly believe in the essential human element in creating captions, and use real people – not standalone automated speech recognition software – to produce the most accurate, highest quality captions. Our comprehensive service offerings meet requirements as mandated by the Federal Communications Committee, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, among others. Our services include: – Captioning Live (Real-Time) Captions Offline (Prerecorded) Captions Spanish Captions Video/Meeting Platform Integrations Caption Encoding – Audio Description – Multi-Language Subtitles – Dubbing We caption more than 580,000 hours of programming each year for clients that include every major broadcasting company, most cable networks, streaming platforms, program producers, stadiums, and events centers. Our commitment to communication accessibility is evidenced by our talented captioners, technical expertise, and exceptional client service. To better fit your industry’s specific needs, we have combined the business expertise of Verbit with VITAC’s professional captioners to deliver the best possible accessibility solutions for everyone in our community.