MiVideo: Cost for Captions, Audio Descriptions, Translations & Dubbing

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MiVideo

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What is the cost to order captions, audio descriptions, and translations in MiVideo?

Resolution

Media must be uploaded to your My Media in Canvas or Mediaspace to use these services.

Free Services

English machine-generated captions are automatically ordered for all new video and audio files you add to your My Media library from Canvas and Mediaspace.
English machine-generated captions can be manually ordered from Canvas and Mediaspace for media without captions added prior to 4/22/2024.
Non-English machine-generated captions in the source language (see list in table below) can be manually ordered from Canvas and Mediaspace.
User-generated audio description tracks and extended audio description timed VTT files can be added to media by the ITS-MiVideo team. Please complete the MiVideo Captioning, Transcription & Audio Descriptions Request Form to provide the necessary details.
User-generated language translation captions can be created in the Captions Editor.

Fee-based Services

Other other services are fee-based requiring a shortcode or ordered through a Captions Profile (configured for individual departments upon request).
Cost is based on service, turnaround time, and the length of the recording rounded up the next minute. For example, a recording with a length of 10 minutes and 1 second will be charged for 11 minutes. Prices are shown per minute.
The recording length can be edited down as necessary, see the Utilizing Video Editor article.
Please complete the MiVideo Captioning, Transcription & Audio Descriptions Request Form to place your order.

Service	Source Language	Target Language	Turnaround Time/ Cost
Machine-generated Captions (English) Can be ordered from Canvas and Mediaspace for free	English	English	30 minutes/ Free
Machine-generated Captions (non-English) Can be ordered from Canvas and Mediaspace for free This is not a translation service	Arabic, Cantonese, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Finnish, French, French (Canada), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malayalam, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Taiwanese Mandarin, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese	Source Language	30 minutes/ Free
Human Professional Captions (English)	English	English	Best effort (up to 4 business days) / $1 min 48 hours / $1.10 min 24 hours / $1.25 min 6 hours / $3.67 min
Human Professional Captions (non-English)	Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Swedish, Thai	Source Language	48 hours / $3.16 min
Human Professional Captions for Musical Performance (English) Only for video with musical performance.	English	English	4 days / $1.87 min
Human Professional Audio Description (English) Does not support YouTube passthrough videos	English	English	5 days / $6.65 min 48 hours / $8.46 min 24 hours / $10.28 min
User-generated Audio Description Must create your own voice over audio track Does not support YouTube passthrough videos	Source Language	Source Language	Free
Human Professional Extended Audio Description (English) Does not support YouTube passthrough videos	English	English	5 days / $10.78 min 48 hours / $12.74 min 24 hours / $14.70 min
User-generated Extended Audio Description Must create your own timed VTT file Does not support YouTube passthrough videos	Source Language	Source Language	Free
Machine-generated Language Translation (from English) High quality text captions for the source language are required	English	Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Arabic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Bulgarian, Spanish (Latin America), Latvian (Lettish), Lithuanian, Slovak, Hungarian, Ukrainian	3 hours / $0.20 min
Human Professional Language Translation (from English) High quality text captions for the source language are required	English	Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese Mandarin, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Thai, Vietnamese, French, French (Canada), Portuguese, Spanish (Latin America)	5 days / price depends on language
Human Professional Language Translation (to English) High quality text captions for the source language are required	Arabic, Dutch, French, French (Canada), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America), Taiwanese Mandarin, Thai, Vietnamese	English	5 days / price depends on language
User-generated Language Translation Must write your own captions.	Source Language	Target Language	Free

Resources and Questions

Check out the new Academic Technology@Michigan website for course planning resources from across U-M.
Visit the Canvas @ Michigan site for faculty including the U-M Instructor Guide with links to additional support resources from across campus.
Check out the Canvas and MiVideo tutorials.

For additional questions, please contact the ITS Service Center.