Audio description and closed captions
Audio description and closed captions for broadcasters and OTT platforms. Re-scribe writes to the picture and voices every line; you review it against the frame, and our post team can check it before it ships.
Invite-only for now. Invited teams can watch finished work from series we have delivered.
Description scriptEnglish
A woman crosses the empty platform, her coat pulled tight.
She stops at the station doors and looks back.
Outside, rain streaks the windows. The street is empty.
A man runs out after her and holds out an umbrella.
Short spoken lines that tell blind and low-vision viewers what is on screen: who is there, what they do, where we are. Written into the pauses in the dialogue, voiced in one consistent house voice and mixed under your programme, so the dialogue always stays clear.
Timed text of the dialogue, and the sounds that matter, for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing. Easy line lengths and reading speeds, in the formats broadcasters and platforms ask for.
Your programme, the dialogue stem if you have it, and a cast sheet so every name is right.
Re-scribe finds the pauses in the dialogue, reads the picture and writes lines that fit them, or times your captions.
Watch it back against the picture. Edit a line, re-voice it, approve it, or leave a note at the timecode.
Our own reviewers check every line, to a deadline: 72 hours Standard or 24 hours Express.
Captions and AD scripts as SRT, WebVTT and TTML; the AD track, the full mix, or a finished MP4.
Until the OTT rules apply to all new titles
835days
Counting to 6 February 2029, the end of the 36-month preparation window. 24% of the window has gone. Every month of catalogue left until then is more hours to describe at the last minute.
OTT. Final accessibility guidelines issued for streaming publishers: captions, audio description and Indian Sign Language, phased in.
Cinema. Captions and audio description required on CBFC-certified feature films, including trailers. MIB’s order of 15 Mar 2024 gave two years to comply.
All new OTT titles carry at least one feature for visually impaired viewers, in practice audio description, and one for hearing-impaired viewers. Library titles: best effort.
Sources: MIB, Accessibility Guidelines for OTT Platforms (O.M. of 6 Feb 2026), clauses 4.1, 4.2 and 5.1; MIB order of 15 Mar 2024 on feature films in cinemas, as reported by IPRMENTLAW and exchange4media. Live, audio-only and short-form content of 10 minutes or less are exempt (clause 6.2). A summary, not legal advice.
Estimate: ₹3,00,000 before GST, ₹3,54,000 with GST.
Estimated Credit, before GST
₹3,00,000
Tier 2 is arranged with our team. At the published rates. In the app, every job is priced on its exact minutes before it starts.
Prices before GST at 18%. See the full rate card.
Send the full episode or the feature film. It runs as one job and comes back as one delivery, at one price.
Every line sits against the picture and the timeline. Change the words and re-voice just that line. Nothing leaves without someone seeing it.
Add a check by the Asanga team with a stated turnaround. If an Express review runs late, you pay the Standard price.
See the price before a job starts and pay only for minutes delivered. A job that fails costs nothing.
We are opening Re-scribe to a small group of broadcasters and platforms first. Tell us what you make and the languages you need, and we will set up your workspace.
