Media and Corporate Communications
In the US, Vitac the captioning arm of Merrill Corporation has been providing services to the media sector for over 20 years. Since 1983, Vitac has grown into a worldwide operation with four US offices, two international offices and real-time and offline captioners working across the globe.
Today, our stenographers, transcribers, notetakers and technicians cover over 280 client bookings every day producing 2.1million pages of transcripts per year. Vitac alone captions over 165,000 hours of broadcast programming per year.
Merrill provides media and corporate organisations with a record of the spoken word in any spoken forum:
At HR grievance, fact-finding or disciplinary meetings the summary or verbatim transcript is produced from pre-recorded audio or with a stenographer/notetaker present capturing the words as they are spoken.
At an AGM, board or roundtable meeting a fast and accurate record of a meeting is delivered in real-time or can be provided at the end of day, next day or longer turnaround for the meeting delegates
At a press conference, or interview a text feed in real-time is delivered direct to the news room for print, television or the web.
At any kind of meeting or event a real-time Speech To Text service for the deaf and hard of hearing is provided either direct to an individual laptop or projected onto a large screen for a wider audience.
For a TV station both offline and real-time captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing is produced daily. We can also provide a real-time broadcast text feed direct from a courtroom to a TV news channel.
Our clients include FTSE 100 companies, national broadcasters, banks, financial institutions, events and production companies, regulatory agencies, telecommunications and transport agencies.
