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AI chatbot for captioning services: live CART, post-production, and broadcast

SleekAI reads your captioner roster, live CART availability, post-production turnaround tiers, broadcast caption rates (608/708), and certifications (CRC, RPR) from WordPress postmeta, then quotes and books in seconds. Bring your own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or OpenRouter key.

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SleekAI chatbot for Captioning Services

Captioning has three very different products under one name

A university disability services office needs a live CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) captioner for a 90-minute lecture starting in 2 hours. A documentary production house needs post-production English captions and Spanish subtitles for a 47-minute film with a 5-day turnaround. A broadcaster needs FCC-compliant 608/708 closed captioning for nightly news. These three jobs require completely different captioners, completely different workflows, completely different pricing, and they all use the word captioning. A static contact form forces the customer to email three times to figure out which department handles which.

SleekAI reads your real WordPress data: each captioner as a custom post with postmeta for services (live_cart, post_production, broadcast_608, subtitle_translation), certifications (CRC, RPR, CCP), rate_per_hour, rate_per_video_minute, and turnaround_tiers. Rate sheets live as structured postmeta: live CART at $145 to $185/hr with a 1-hour minimum, post-production English captions at $5 to $9 per video minute by turnaround tier, broadcast captioning by contract.

Generic chatbots conflate these three businesses, quote the wrong rate, or assume captioning means post-production transcription and miss the live CART use case entirely. They also don't know that CART captioners are different professionals from broadcast captioners (CART comes from court reporting via NCRA CRC certification, broadcast comes from television workflows), and they don't apply the right ADA-compliance language for educational and legal settings. SleekAI's data mapping reads your actual three-product structure and routes each inquiry correctly.

Workflow

How SleekAI quotes captioning

1

Three-product structure

Each captioner's postmeta lists which of live_cart, post_production, broadcast_608 they serve. The bot routes inquiries to the right product line, applying the right rate model and credentialing filter for each.
2

Rate-tier calculation

Live CART by hour with content premiums (STEM, legal, medical). Post-production by video minute with turnaround tiers. Broadcast collected as a discovery questionnaire for operations sizing. SleekAI reads the full matrix from postmeta.
3

Captioner matching

For live CART, the bot filters available captioners by specialty (technical, medical, legal), schedule, and certification. For post-production, it allocates to the captioner pool by current backlog and turnaround commitment.
4

Block bookings

Semester or quarter block bookings get the configured discount (commonly 10 to 15%) applied automatically, and the bot reserves the same captioner across recurring slots when scheduling allows.

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A typical captioning inquiry

A university disability services office needs a live CART captioner for a 90-minute lecture starting in 2 hours.

Comparison

Generic chatbot vs SleekAI for captioning services

Generic chatbot

  • Conflates live CART, post-production, and broadcast captioning
  • Doesn't apply STEM/technical premiums to specialized lectures
  • Misses ADA-compliance and FCC 608/708 broadcast requirements
  • Can't quote turnaround-tiered rates (24hr, 48hr, 5-day) for post-production
  • Has no awareness of CRC, RPR, CCP certification differences

SleekAI chatbot

  • Reads three service types from services postmeta per captioner
  • Applies STEM, legal, and technical premiums to live CART rates
  • Quotes post-production by video-minute and turnaround tier
  • Surfaces semester or contract block discounts automatically
  • Routes broadcast inquiries to FCC-compliant 608/708 specialists

Features

What SleekAI gives you for Captioning Services

Live CART correctly priced

CART captioners come from court reporting (NCRA CRC certification) and bill hourly with 1-hour minimums. STEM, legal, and medical content add 20 to 30% premiums. The bot quotes the right rate for the specific lecture or meeting.

Post-production by tier

Post-production English captions run $5 to $9 per video minute depending on turnaround (5-day, 48-hour, 24-hour), with subtitle translation adding $3 to $7 per video minute per language. The bot calculates by video length and required turnaround.

Broadcast and streaming

FCC-compliant 608/708 closed captioning for broadcast and OTT streaming is typically contract-based. The bot collects channel info, daily program hours, and current vendor, then hands off to a senior captioning operations lead.

Use cases

Where captioning chatbots earn their keep

Higher ed CART

Disability services offices booking live CART for lectures, lab sessions, and exams get specific captioners reserved for full-semester blocks with consistent rates.

Post-production for film

Documentary, corporate video, and online course producers get tiered turnaround quotes by video length, with foreign-language subtitle add-ons priced separately.

Broadcast compliance

Local TV stations and OTT services needing FCC 608/708 compliant captioning get routed to ENGcap-trained captioners under contract terms with the operations team.

The bigger picture

Why captioning agencies need product-aware intake

Captioning is sold as one word but operationally is three different services with three different professional bases, three different price models, and three different customer profiles. Agencies that handle all three suffer from intake confusion at scale, where a university disability services contact gets accidentally quoted post-production transcription rates, or a documentary producer gets routed to a CART captioner. SleekAI's product-aware intake eliminates this routing failure by reading the live request, identifying which product applies, and applying the right rate model from postmeta.

The economic case is direct. Universities sign semester block contracts worth $20,000 to $200,000 annually per institution, and the agency that quotes consistently and reliably during the late-summer rush capture window wins the term. Documentary producers send tight-deadline rush jobs where a 30-minute response wins over a 4-hour response.

Broadcast contracts are sticky multi-year deals where initial responsiveness signals long-term operational reliability. Beyond conversion, intake consistency also matters for compliance. ADA Title II and Title III settings require effective communication, and quoting auto-captioning for an ADA accommodation context creates downstream legal exposure for both the customer and the agency.

The bot's system prompt enforces never recommending ASR for ADA-required accommodations, which protects the agency's reputation and the customer's compliance posture.

Questions

Common questions about SleekAI for Captioning Services

CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is live, real-time text streamed during an event, typically by a CRC-certified court-reporter-trained captioner. Transcription is post-event audio-to-text. Captioning typically means synchronized text on a video (608/708 broadcast, WebVTT for web). They use different professionals, different software, and different price structures.

 

Educational, workplace, and event captioning often falls under ADA Title II or III. The system prompt recognizes ADA language and routes to qualified human captioners rather than AI captioning. The bot does not recommend automatic speech recognition for ADA accommodations because ASR accuracy doesn't meet the effective communication standard for primary captioning.

 

Yes. Post-production English captions plus Spanish subtitles for a 47-minute documentary at 5-day turnaround quotes as: English captions at $5/min ($235) plus Spanish subtitles at $4/min ($188), total $423 for the language layer. Multiple subtitle languages add up linearly with shared timing data.

 

Live CART covers conferences, town halls, religious services, weddings, depositions, and board meetings. Each context has slightly different captioner requirements (depositions need NCRA-RPR-certified court reporters who also CART). The bot routes by context and applies the right credentialing filter.

 

Broadcast captioning is almost always contract-based by daily program hours. The bot collects channel name, current vendor, daily hours needing captioning, languages, and any specialty programming (sports, news, religious). Then it fires a webhook to your operations team for contract sizing. The chat doesn't quote final broadcast pricing because it varies by setup and SLA.

 

Yes, common scheduling tools for captioning agencies (CaptionMax, AdaptiveSchool, custom Boostlingo-style platforms) accept webhook payloads. SleekAI fires the booking with captioner selected, service type, start time, duration, customer details, and any specialty notes. Confirmation emails go through your existing system.

 

Yes, the post-production rate matrix includes turnaround tiers: standard 5-day at base rate, 48-hour at +30%, 24-hour at +60%, same-day at +100%. The bot calculates against the customer's deadline and applies the tightest possible tier that still allows on-time delivery. If the deadline is impossible, it says so and proposes the earliest deliverable date.

 

Many live CART jobs now go to remote Zoom or Teams meetings via the meeting platform's third-party captioning input. The bot collects platform info, expected attendees, technical vocabulary level, and any specialty needs, then quotes the CART rate plus the meeting platform integration setup (usually included free, sometimes a $25 setup fee for first-time integrations).

 

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