Captioning and Transcription Options at KU Medical Center
Web Automated Captioning
Vendors: Panopto
Price: Free for Automated Captions
Time: Almost immediate.
Process: Record video and upload it into Panopto. Click Edit video, select captions, and insert Captions. Edit captions for accuracy.
Manual and Human Captioning
Vendors: Ai-Media Technologies LLC ai-media.tv
Price: $0.20/minutes
Time: Length of the video
Process: Record video on Panopto. Send video to Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) to process.
Transcription Services
- Communication Access Real-time Translation (CART) is a word-for-word, near-verbatim, speech-to-text interpreting service for people who have hearing loss and would not be able to fully participate otherwise.
Vendors: AP Captions Inc.
Price: $150/Hour for On-site services. 3 hours minimum per assignment
$125/Hour for Remote services
Cancelation: All cancellations for services for on-site or remote CART Captioning must be made- 24 hours in advance to avoid charges.
Process: Contact Annette Pascarelli, joebaxter3@att.ne, or call 913-449-3335 or ADA Compliance Program at ada-kumc@kumc.edu - Typewell Services provides a transcript based on meaning rather than the word for word translation provided by CART.
Vendor: Quality Transcription Specialists, LLC
Price: $85/hour- Remote services only
Cancelation: All cancellations for services must be made 24 hours in advance to avoid charges.
Process: Contact Cal Hutson at Cal@QTSKC.com or call 816-805-8945 or ADA Compliance Program at ada-kumc@kumc.edu - American Sign Language Interpretation (ASL)
Vendor: Nexus Interpreting LLC
Price: $52/hour- On-site services
Cancelation: All cancellations for services must be made- 24 hours in advance to avoid charges.
Process: Contact Amanda Wittman at office@nexusinterpreting.com, or call 913-220-2333 or ADA Compliance Program at ada-kumc@kumc.edu
Updated: 6/16/2025