Media
We provide a wide range of services for media and news organisations and work closely with our clients to develop innovative new services to help them communicate more effectively: from assisting broadcasters like Sky to bring the latest developments in high-profile court hearings to providing stenographers for internal disciplinary hearings or delivering live text to deaf and hard-of-hearing councillors.
What services do we offer?
Captioning and subtitling
Through Captioning and Subtitling International (CSI), Merrill Legal Solutions’ subtitling joint venture with ITFC, we provide a range of high quality, cost effective pre-recorded and live subtitling services. Our expert subtitlers and broadcast stenographers produce the highest quality pre-recorded and live subtitles for television. We have developed an innovative service that allows the deaf and hearing-impaired to play the fullest role in meetings, conferences and live events. A live, verbatim account of what is being said enables deaf or hearing-impaired people to participate fully in proceedings and have access to all that is said. Our Speech to Text service provides communication support to participants in an onsite or remote capacity.
Who uses us?
Captioning and subtitling: Clients include ABC (Australia), the Discovery group of channels, Jetix, National Geographic, MTV, VH1, Hallmark and others.
Broadcasts: In 2005, Merrill Legal Solutions joined forces with Sky News to televise for the first time proceedings of a court under UK jurisdiction. We have since gone from strength to strength in providing broadcasting services at the Osnabruck courts martial verdicts, Sion Jenkins re-trials, Abu Hamza, Anthony Walker and Damilola Taylor trials plus the Deepcut Inquest, amongst others. Both Sky News and BBC News 24 use our services regularly to strengthen their rolling television broadcasts.
Speech to Text: Large corporations such as Accenture, BT, Ford Motor Company, as well as government bodies and departments such as the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, communications regulator Ofcom and BERR (formerly the DTI) plus many in-house legal teams, use our speech to text services with great success.
