4 posts tagged with "Product update"

Public meeting video is only half the record. Residents also need the agenda they read before the meeting, the board packet with staff reports, and the official minutes that follow. Until now, those documents usually lived on a separate page on your website while the recording sat in Granicus, YouTube, or a Recap embed. Residents bounced between tabs. Clerks re-uploaded the same PDFs in multiple places.

Recap Innovations now supports meeting documents and draft minutes directly on each meeting recording. Attach an agenda, packet, published minutes, or highlights document, or generate a structured draft minutes document from the transcript. Everything appears alongside the searchable transcript and captions in your Recap embed and showcase collections.

Live captioning for public meetings, lectures, and broadcasts depends entirely on the speech recognition engine running behind the scenes. If that engine goes down, captions stop. For organizations with accessibility obligations under ADA Title II or WCAG 2.1 AA, an outage during a city council session or commencement ceremony is not just inconvenient; it is a compliance gap.

Recap now supports three live speech recognition providers: Deepgram, ElevenLabs, and Google. When one provider experiences errors, Recap automatically fails over to the next, keeping captions running without manual intervention.

Caption timing is one of the most tedious parts of post-production accessibility work. Editors typically guess at timestamps, play back repeatedly, and manually type corrections measured in milliseconds. Recap's new waveform timestamp editor changes that workflow entirely by making audio visible directly within the caption editor.

Government entities are responsible for making their social media videos accessible under ADA Title II, even when the platform itself does not offer built-in caption support. We have added a new export option to Recap that lets you burn captions directly into the video frames, producing a file with permanently visible (open) captions that works on any platform.