Verbit
AI and human transcription, captioning, and audio description for accessible media
About Verbit
Verbit is a transcription, captioning, and audio description provider that combines its own speech and vision AI with professional human reviewers. It offers expert human and AI audio description in standard and extended styles, and delivers them through an accessible Smart Player, LMS and video platform integrations, or exported audio and timed text files.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Offers both AI and fully human audio description, so you can route content by risk level
- Smart Player handles extended audio description, which most hosted players can't
- Long track record in captioning for higher education and media (VITAC, AST CaptionSync)
- Delivers open AD, separate audio tracks, or timed text depending on your workflow
- 24/7 support
Cons
- No public per-minute pricing; you need a sales conversation
- AI audio description launched in January 2026, so it has a shorter track record than its captioning
- Plans page focuses on legal and media products, which makes the accessibility offer harder to evaluate
Key Features
AI Audio Description
Vision AI analyzes video frame by frame, writes descriptions, and finds insertion points in dialogue pauses; launched January 2026
Expert Human Audio Description
Trained describers write scripts and voice artists record tracks for content that needs editorial judgment
Optional Human Review
Add expert review on top of AI descriptions for public-facing or compliance-critical video
Standard and Extended AD
Descriptions timed to natural gaps, or extended descriptions that pause playback for richer narration
Smart Player
WCAG 2.1 accessible player with extended audio description, captions, transcript search, and clip-and-share
Flexible Delivery
Separate audio track, open description mixed into the main audio, timed text for manual recording, or player/LMS integration
LMS and Video Platform Integrations
Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, YouTube, Vimeo, Brightcove, and more
Captioning and Transcription
Human and AI captioning, live captioning, and transcription (home of VITAC and AST CaptionSync)
Pricing
- AI-generated standard or extended AD
- Turnaround roughly the length of the video
- Optional expert human review
- Smart Player delivery
- Human script writing
- Professional voice artists
- QA against WCAG 2.1 AA and ADC best practices
- Broadcast-ready delivery formats
- Subscription for universities
- Captioning plus audio description
- ADA Title II readiness support
Best For
Higher education compliance
Describe course and campus video for ADA Title II with LMS integrations
Government communications
Make public meetings and civic video accessible under Section 508 and WCAG 2.1
Media and entertainment
Expert human description for film, TV, and streaming content
Corporate training
AI description for large internal training libraries
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