3Play Media provides high quality, time-synchronized transcription, captioning, media search, and interactive navigation tools. 3Play Media’s integration enables Brightcove customers to easily transcribe and caption their content for a richer, more accessible experience.

Transcription and Captioning

You get transcripts and closed caption files that are 99% accurate, even in cases of poor audio quality, multiple speakers, difficult content, and accents. Our advanced technology is what enables our competitive prices, but our stringent, multi-step quality assurance measures ensure that our quality is as good as or better than manual transcription or court stenography. Our self-service web-based account system gives you dozens of editing and publishing features, such as find & replace, custom interval time stamping, and SEO. You can output final transcripts to text or HTML. Captions will be automatically displayed for any Brightcove video that has been processed simply by adding our BEML plugin and a snippet of embed code on your website.

Interactive Transcripts

Embedding an interactive transcript plugin on your website with the Brightcove player allows your users to navigate, search, and interact with your media. The plugin can be embedded on any website simply by inserting a snippet of code (we host the transcript content), and the size and styling can easily be customized to conform to any site.

• Transcript follows the video, highlighting individual words as they are spoken.
• Transcript is linked with the media word to word. You can click on any word to jump to its respective point in the video.
• You can search within the transcript or captions. Search results are marked on the timeline and also highlighted in the transcript.

Social Video Clipping

New interactive tool lets you quickly share a section of a video simply by highlighting the spoken words in the transcript. Share videos faster and with more relevance than ever before. Learn more.

Search Across Your Entire Media Library

The archive search plugin allows you to search across an entire media library. Search results are displayed on visual timelines for all relevant media files. You can expand a segment to view its corresponding transcript or begin playing the media from that point. Learn more.

Features and Benefits

• Search and Discoverability: Empowers your users to search within a transcript or across an entire media library. Click on a word, or even a search result within the archive, and jump to that specific point in a video. Our SEO tool uses the transcript to generate the optimal metadata for your videos.
• Accessibility: Makes your content available to more than 28 million people in the US who are hearing impaired and millions more who speak English as a second language.
• Engagement: Increases the amount of time that an average user spends watching a video and gives your users the flexibility to view content in noisy environments or sound-sensitive environments, like a workplace.
• Translation: High quality transcription is a pre-requisite for translation, which reaches more people and opens global advertising opportunities.
• Monetization: Accurate transcripts are a precursor to more relevant content delivery and higher earning ads
• Simplified workflows: Integrated file transfer simply by using your Brightcove API Token.

Getting Started

1. Contact 3Play Media to setup an account
2. Login and enter Brightcove API token into Import Field
3. Select videos to process
4. Add 3Play Media plugin to Brightcove player

Pricing Model

• Service fees per video hour, prorated to the nearest second.
• No minimum.