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This is a picture essay of things happening in and around the company, the characters in our mix, a levitating 7 train, and some behemoth structures around us that seem to be staring into our souls.

I have a lot to tell you about the API for our live captioning platform, called Recapd. The Recapd API is actually two APIs – a Server API and a Client API. The Client API is what I want to tell you about today. This week we’re making a BIG update available.

So you’ve heard about this Recapd application by now, right? If not, Recapd is one of the industry leading real-time caption delivery services. What you probably didn’t know is what lies beneath this powerful application. Since its inception, we’ve been growing the API base so other developers can dynamically manipulate the embedded widget, and also, gather information about an event from our servers. Guess what? The wait is over!

When I was conceptualizing how FW Toolkit (FWTK) would function, I envisioned a library robust, powerful, agile, but really easy to incorporate into anyone of our projects. Although, the library did exactly as intended, a component was left out due to my own skepticism. FWTK, as a library, comes equipped with an arsenal of tools created by our developers, but the few external libraries we depended on, needed to be loaded separately before they were accessible (Errrr). I wasn’t pleased by this process, but the overall library was a success so I was content.

We rolled out a project last week that we’ve been working on for two years – SyncWords. SyncWords automates captioning when you provide media and a transcript, and does it with great precision and style, and puts users in control.

I woke up this morning to the dreaded alert of a day full of scheduled meetings. Just the thought of four in one day was nothing to anticipate and sent a chill down my spine. The first meeting started later than scheduled, but with free lunch included, who could complain? The meeting was about application integration and our head of RnD, Jose Burgos, Jr. discussed how we could improve communication by integrating our Basecamp and Beanstalk accounts…

I’m excited to announce that we launched our captioning platform, SyncWords.

Here’s how it works. You upload media (video or audio) and a transcript, and SyncWords does the rest – recognizing speaker labels, timing each word in the transcript with the audio, crafting readable caption segments, and generating caption files.

I sat down the other day to pen a post for our blog, which has sadly suffered from neglect. I start most of this kind of writing in my email client, Thunderbird, so I went to my Drafts folder to pick up a recent piece I started about caption reformatting (now I know you’ll be checking back regularly in anticipation!). Well, as I went through a few drafts I had started, I found 16 different posts I was writing in varying states of completion. :(

Starting January 1, 2013, our partner, the National Captioning Institute (NCI), will be launching their NCI On Demand platform. The platform will bridge the gap between live captions for broadcasts and captioning for the web. Our very own Recap’d will be the cornerstone of the service, handling capture and delivery of captions up to 24×7×365, and conversion of live captions for offline use on the web and in editing workflows.