What Captioning Studio Group does

Captioning Studio Group is an Australian privately-held accessibility services company founded in 2004 and headquartered in Adelaide, with a reported 1-10 employees. It provides professional live captioning, video captioning, transcription, and audio description services to government, corporate, higher education, disability organisations, NDIS participants, and performing arts clients across Australia. Live captioning is the core offering, delivered remotely by championship-level stenocaptioners who consistently achieve 99.5%+ accuracy, supported by a complimentary raw transcript with optional upgrades to polished or fully edited deliverables.

The company's technology foundation is a proprietary live captioning platform built and maintained in-house by an Australian engineering team and hosted entirely on Australian data centres. The platform supports realtime stenocaptioning with 1-2 second latency, multiple display methods (URL access, QR code, overlay, broadcast embed, venue projection), live translation subtitles in 74 languages, broadcast-standard EIA-608/708 embedding, and integrations with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, OBS, vMix, YouTube, Vimeo, Webex, and Google Meet. Remote delivery via audio/video connection enables nationwide service without onsite equipment, and the platform claims 99.9% uptime with 24/7 support.

Revenue is generated through quote-based professional service fees paid per event, with pricing varying by duration, complexity, and service type and no publicly disclosed standard rate card. The go-to-market is sales-led and event-driven, relying on direct quote requests, phone contact, industry events, and earned credibility from recognitions including the Australian Human Rights Commission Business Award, the National Captioning Awards Best Event Captioning in Australia, and the Australian Government National Disability Award. Named customers include Deaf Children Australia, Flinders University, the Australian Government (via the Parliamentary Secretary for Disability and Carers), and Audiology Australia, with the company reporting over 20,000 cumulative events delivered across all Australian states and territories.

Name

Captioning Studio Group

Legal name

Captioning Studio

Website

https://captioningstudio.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Captioning Studio Group is an Australian accessibility services company that provides professional live captioning, video captioning, transcription, and audio description for government, corporate, education, and disability sector clients across Australia using a proprietary in-house platform and championship-level stenocaptioners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Accessibility Services / Live Captioning

NAICS

Postproduction Services and Other Motion Picture and Video Industries (51219), Court Reporting and Stenotype Services (561492)

SIC

Services-Allied To Motion Picture Production (7819)

akta.pro primary industry

Subtitling & Captioning Services (Timed Text, SDH/CC) (MPAHAFAA)

Keywords

• Live captioning services
• Stenocaptioning services
• Audio description services
• Video transcription services
• Accessibility services

Headquarters

HQ city

Adelaide

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Live Captioning Services: Professional stenocaptioning services delivered in realtime for meetings, conferences, events, and broadcasts. Revenue generated through per-event service fees based on duration and complexity. Includes complimentary raw transcript with option for upgraded transcript services.
2. Video Captioning & Post-Production: Caption file creation for recorded content including movies, TV, and online videos with precise synchronisation to video timecode. Supports industry-standard file formats (SRT, VTT) and DCP-compatible captions for cinema.
3. Transcription Services: Professional transcription services ranging from raw transcripts (included free with live captioning) to polished draft and fully edited publication-quality transcripts. Optional 24-hour turnaround available for urgent needs.
4. Audio Description Services: Professional audio description making visual content accessible through expert narration for pre-recorded content, live events, theatre, and script consultation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Captioning Studio Group provides professional live stenocaptioning, video captioning, transcription, and audio description services delivered through a proprietary in-house captioning platform built and hosted in Australian data centres. Services are sold on a quote-based, per-event basis to government, corporate, education, disability, and event-sector organisations across Australia, with realtime captions consistently exceeding 99.5% accuracy and the platform delivering 99.9% uptime.

Product overview

Captioning Studio operates as a unified professional services platform offering live captioning, video captioning, transcription, audio description, and post-production captioning — all delivered through a professionally managed, end-to-end workflow. The core offering is live stenocaptioning (Live Captioning), which provides realtime captions at 99.5%+ accuracy for events. This is complemented by Video Captioning for on-demand content, Transcription at multiple quality tiers (raw, polished draft, fully edited), Audio Description for blind and low-vision audiences, and a Caption Overlay App that overlays live captions onto presentations and livestreams. The entire suite is built on an in-house Australian captioning platform and supported by Australian-based technical and broadcast engineering teams.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Theatre Captioning: Specialised captioning service for live theatre performances, operated as a distinct website (theatrecaptioning.com.au)

Products and services

• Live Captioning

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.5%+ accuracy consistently delivered by stenocaptioners vs lower accuracy rates from automated systems
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

Feature7 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• 3Play Media: US-based video accessibility provider offering captioning, transcription, subtitling, and audio description for recorded and live content. Highly comparable on service scope and customer base (enterprise, education, government, media).
• Rev: US-based transcription, captioning, and subtitling marketplace with both human and AI workflows. Direct competitor for video captioning and transcription services, operating at larger and more digital-native scale.
• VITAC: North America's largest broadcast captioning provider offering realtime and prerecorded captioning for TV, streaming, and live events. Comparable as a full-service, human-stenocaptioner-led captioning specialist, though focused on the US market.
• Ai-Media: Australian-headquartered leader in live captioning, transcription and translation services. Closest direct competitor - similar geographic focus, similar service mix across live/broadcast/video, and overlapping B2B/government/education customer base.

Emerging players

• Otter.ai: AI meeting transcription and live captioning service widely adopted in corporate and education segments. Not a direct competitor for high-stakes stenocaptioned events, but a fast-improving substitute for routine meeting/livestream captions.
• Verbit: AI-first captioning and transcription platform serving legal, education, and media verticals. Competes for the same captioning/transcription budgets with a tech-led rather than stenocaptioner-led model, increasingly relevant as AI accuracy improves.
• Trint: AI-powered transcription and captioning platform built for journalists and media teams. Overlaps with Captioning Studio's transcription and video captioning offerings but leans automated rather than human-delivered.

Others

• Speechmatics: UK-based automatic speech recognition technology provider. Not a service competitor, but an underlying technology supplier whose improvements in ASR accuracy directly affect Captioning Studio's competitive landscape.

Broad incumbents

• Zoom Video Communications: Major video conferencing platform with built-in auto-captioning and now live translation. Embeds basic accessibility functionality that increasingly substitutes for low-end live captioning demand, though not for the high-stakes events Captioning Studio serves.

Regional players

• Red Bee Media: UK/European media services company providing subtitling, captioning, and accessibility services for broadcasters and live events. Comparable offering for accessibility-first media projects, but UK/Nordics focused rather than Australian.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/thecaptstudio
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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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