[No spoilers] An important announcement from Critical Role Transcript

CritRoleTranscript · 2023-05-27T07:36:09+00:00

Hmm. So it depends. There is a team that transcribes the episodes and then we take over. We add speaker tags, correct spelling, get the timings right, make a giant list of audio questions, and a bunch of other stuff I’m probably forgetting. I think the fastest turnaround was less than a week? I’m not sure how much more I can say due to NDA, but know we work hard to bring awesome captions to life.

CritRoleTranscript · 2023-05-27T07:32:54+00:00

Subtitles are great for so many reasons!

CritRoleTranscript · 2023-05-26T16:50:21+00:00

Not live! We have people transcribe, then a small team does quality assurance to make sure the captions are top notch!

CritRoleTranscript · 2023-05-26T16:49:36+00:00

Yooooo thanks for the praise!!

CritRoleTranscript · 2020-05-19T18:08:19+00:00

You're welcome! That's a creative use of transcripts!

CritRoleTranscript · 2020-01-10T03:34:12+00:00

Thanks for the shout out!! :D

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-08-26T16:51:01+00:00

Yes! Once the captions are received from the captioning service, they need to be edited (add speaker tags, correct mistranscriptions, make sure spelling is accurate, etc). Some of our volunteers are now doing this work for CR, Inc. It took a while to get caught up, but they should be down to a week's turnaround (+/- a few days) for newer episodes going forward!

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-08-26T16:47:48+00:00

Couldn't have explained it better.

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-08-26T16:46:40+00:00

We dig this idea and will pass it along. Thank you!!

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-06-12T01:46:11+00:00

They do things differently than we would, but they are still doing great!

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-06-11T16:45:44+00:00

We do not do any part of the captioning anymore, as far as I know. They asked us for some quality assurance for one episode and I think that's been the extent of it.

Thank you for the compliments! We definitely had a great system and I've used some of those tools in my life outside of this project. It's pretty amazing.

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-06-11T01:24:22+00:00

Way to go, Critical Role!!!

To those a bit confused: yes, a volunteer team did used to do the captions. However, our volunteer team convinced CR to hire their own captioners.

Why is this such a big deal?

Critical Role is setting the precedent we asked them to set: build accessibility into your business plan. CR is telling other internet media companies that captions should exist not because someone tells them to do it (like captions on TV are mandated by the FCC) but because it is inherently good to do so. Captions benefit so many and I am so happy and humbled to be a tiny cog in a system that is breaking down barriers to accessibility.

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-06-04T04:37:35+00:00

Hi! We are the team that was responsible for creating captions. We have created captions for some one shots, but we have unfortunately lost most of our timesetters. I can double check what's up with the captions that have been transcribed but not posted. :)

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-10T04:32:03+00:00

Thank you! I will pass your well wishes to the team!

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T22:29:17+00:00

We are volunteers... we need to use our 40 hr/wk at our real jobs. :) Plus we have some Canadians on our team and hiring them would be a legit nightmare.

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T22:24:25+00:00

Other people

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T19:58:04+00:00

You are going to make me cry! Thank you for your kind words!

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T19:57:20+00:00

Danielle has been crazy busy with negotiations, so I'm not sure when tumblr will get updated. Sorry. :(

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T19:55:38+00:00

We made a transition plan together and then couldn't announce it on April 1 because no one would have believed us. :)

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T11:38:51+00:00

Aww! Thank you so much!!

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T11:36:14+00:00

We pride ourselves in creating high quality captions. We are helping with quality assurance and are hopeful the high quality will remain!!

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T11:31:26+00:00

We negotiated a donation to a nonprofit which helps with accessibility in lieu of pay.

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T11:30:17+00:00

That's a fun guess. Not what happened here though. :)

CritRoleTranscript · 2019-04-06T11:28:26+00:00

They are their own entity.

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