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3Play Media
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3Play Media is the company blog at 3playmedia.com, writing about business and web. Since 2010, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link 3Play Media's blog for accessibility-related material such as a captioning cost analysis and coverage of the Netflix ADA captioning case. Most comments are job postings or bare links.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
3Play Media's captioning, dubbing, subtitling, and audio description solutions combine premium AI with expert human review.
What Hacker News says?
3Play Media | Staff API Engineer | Boston, MA | 1-day-in-office hybrid or REMOTE (US, CA) | Full-time | 3playmedia.com | $170-$190k w/ 10% bonus + equity 3Play is a company focused on ensuring content is accessible to all across disability and language. Our human-QA’d live captioning, transcription, audio description, translation, and dubbing services are used by over 10,000 higher ed, enterprise, media, and governm…
Comment linking /company/jobs-post/?gh_jid=6003662003
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted Why 95% Speech to Text Accuracy Is Startlingly Bad as a story · 7 points
HN discussion3Play Media | Staff Platform Engineer | Remote or Hybrid (US/Canada only) | Full-Time | $150K–$180K USD + equity, benefits, bonus 3Play Media makes video accessible. We create captions, subtitles, transcripts, audio descriptions, localization (translations), and dubbings—whatever’s needed to make customer video easily consumed by a wider audience. Leading the AI charge for over a decade, we marry state-of-the-art au…
Comment linking /company/jobs-post/?gh_jid=6324953003&gh_src=43e89aa43us
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted Adding Captions to YouTube Videos Increases Views Significantly as a story · 3 points
HN discussion3Play Media | On Site (Boston) | Full time | https://3playmedia.com/ I lead the recorded engineering team at 3Play Media, a company dedicated to improving digital media accessibility. 3Play Media is a rapidly growing, profitable technology company revolutionizing how people consume online media. Our premium live captioning, transcription, audio description, and translation solutions serve over 10,000 higher ed, ente…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)”3Play Media | Staff API Engineer | Boston, MA | 1-day-in-office hybrid | Full-time | 3playmedia.com | $160-$180k w/ 10% bonus + equity 3Play is a company focused on ensuring content is accessible to all across disability and language. Our human-QA'd live captioning, transcription, audio description, translation, and dubbing services are used by over 10,000 higher ed, enterprise, media, and government customers. Our…
Comment linking /company/jobs-post/?gh_jid=6076237003
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)”I built a very similar thing w/ topica.io (now defunct - I could spin it back up if there's interest), but focused on sentence-level and word-level timings to create a sleek interactive transcript[0], and transcribed the videos via third party in the background. My email's in my bio if you want to connect :) [0] https://www.3playmedia.com/resources/recorded-webinars/wbnr-...
Comment linking /resources/recorded-webinars/wbnr-06-18-2020-interactive-transcripts/
on “Show HN: You-tldr – easy-to-read transcripts of Youtube videos”Here is an analysis of the cost difference between in house and outsourcing closes captioning. https://www.3playmedia.com/2019/02/04/closed-captioning-in-h... Best case was $2.94 per minute, worst is $5.87 Arguably they can afford the 3.5 - 7 million dollars but if they aren't reusing the material for current students they may reasonably desire to spend the money elsewhere. I would argue that you shouldn't acquire a…
Comment linking /2019/02/04/closed-captioning-in-house/
on “California Supreme Court: Transaction is not required to sue online providers”We haven't found a good provider yet to do this properly for our use case, but SpeakerText, Koemei and VoiceBase are examples of companies that offer these functionalities. Unfortunately SpeakerText doesn't offer non-post-processed prices, Koemei integrated it into their own product and VoiceBase didn't offer post-processing on request, which we would need for integration into our product. Which format will become m…
Comment linking /how-it-works/how-to-guides/html5-video-captioning/
on “Show HN: Unbabel API – Human Corrected Machine Translation”I've seen a few places that do this. edx was doing it for some courses at one point. Here's a demo from 3play: http://www.3playmedia.com/services-features/plugins/interact...
Comment linking /services-features/plugins/interactive-transcript/
on “Harvard and M.I.T. Sued Over Failing to Caption Online Courses”This reminds me of the situation where video games now require that if you add text chat to a game, then you also need to add voice-to-text and text-to-voice to accommodate people with disabilities. Then you need to also test it with a bunch of people that suffer from these disabilities. There are some exceptions, but you need to at least document that you assessed whether you can afford to add this feature or not b…
Comment linking /2019/03/18/the-cvaa-video-game-accessibility/
on “Pre-Sliced Bread Was Once Banned in the United States (2010)”"The DOJ counters that the disability discrimination laws have clear jurisdiction over video on the internet, and that closed captions are required to make videos accessible to deaf or hard of hearing students.[0]" "Harvard and MIT both requested a Motion to Stay or Dismiss the cases on the grounds that current accessibility law doesn’t explicitly require universities to caption video on the web. In June, the US Dep…
Comment linking /2016/02/23/judge-denies-motion-to-dismiss-web-accessibility-lawsuit-against-harvard-mit/
on “Harvard and M.I.T. Are Sued Over Lack of Closed Captions”Wait, is this really a new thing...? I could've sworn I've seen it in streaming services before, where you could choose between dialog only and closed captioning. One is usually called "English" and the other is "English SDH" or similar, where SDH is "subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing". It's the exact difference this article points out (sound effects and music etc., as opposed to just dialog). https://www.3…
Comment linking /blog/whats-the-difference-subtitles-for-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-sdh-v-closed-captions/
on “Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired”Even if we ignore the glaringly obvious answer (yes), hasn't this sort of thing already been litigated in the courts? Like, when Netflix got sued for not providing closed-captioning on some of their content? https://www.3playmedia.com/2015/07/23/nad-v-netflix-ada-laws...
Comment linking /2015/07/23/nad-v-netflix-ada-lawsuit-requires-closed-captioning-on-streaming-video/
on “Do protections for people with disabilities apply online? Domino’s asks SCOTUS”3Play Media | Principal Front-End Engineer (Growth) | Boston, MA | 1-day-in-office hybrid or fully remote (USA only) | Full-time | 3playmedia.com | $200–250k + bonus + equity 3Play makes content accessible across disability and language. Our human-QA'd captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing services are used by over 10,000 media, higher ed, creator, enterprise, and government customers. We’ve worked…
Comment linking /company/jobs-post/?gh_jid=7761973003
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)”But Berkeley has been, and as a result thousands of hours of high quality course content has been permanently removed. > In 2016, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) received letters of complaint stating that UC Berkeley’s MOOC media content was riddled with accessibility issues including low-color contrast, missing and inaccurate (automatically generated) audio and video captions , and screen-reader accessibility is…
Comment linking /blog/uc-berkeley-removing-educational-videos-from-public-access-citing-captioning-costs/
on “MIT Fast Code Seminar”
