# VITAC

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**VITAC** is an American [audio transcription](/source/Transcription_(service)) company that is headquartered in [Canonsburg, Pennsylvania](/source/Canonsburg,_Pennsylvania). It provides services such as [closed captioning](/source/Closed_captioning), [dubbing](/source/Dubbing), and [audio description](/source/Audio_description) services.

The company has over 700 employees, with clients ranging from [broadcast networks](/source/Broadcast_network), to [government agencies](/source/Government_agencies) and educational institutions.[1][2] VITAC is owned by Israeli company *Verbit*.

## History

VITAC was incorporated in March 1986 in Pittsburgh as *American Data Captioning, Inc.* It sold services under the name CaptionAmerica, and in 1993 changed its name to VITAC, an acronym for “VITal ACcess,” which refers to all services that make mass media accessible.

VITAC has been continuously providing closed captioning services since 1986. In 2000, VITAC was sold to Word Wave, Inc. In 2006, Word Wave, Inc. was acquired by Merrill Corporation. In August 2012, VITAC acquired Closed Captioning Services.

In 2016 [The Gores Group](/source/The_Gores_Group), a global private equity firm specializing in acquiring and partnering with mature and growing businesses, acquired VITAC.

In 2017, VITAC acquired Caption Colorado, which was founded in 1991 and expanded to become the second-largest captioning company in the United States with a focus on regional and local newscasts.

In 2020, VITAC acquired VITAC Canada (formerly SOVO Technologies), a Montréal, Canada-based provider of captioning and transcription services known for their artificial intelligence and [speech recognition](/source/Speech_recognition) technology.

In 2021, VITAC was acquired by [Verbit](/source/Verbit), which then acquired U.S. Captioning in May 2022.[1][2][3]

## Offices

VITAC operates out of offices in [Canonsburg, Pennsylvania](/source/Canonsburg,_Pennsylvania), [Greenwood Village, Colorado](/source/Greenwood_Village,_Colorado), and [Montréal, Quebec](/source/Montr%C3%A9al,_Quebec), as well as the hundreds of home offices of real-time captioners all over the country.

## Advocacy

From 2007 to 2010, VITAC campaigned with the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) on the [Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010](/source/Twenty-First_Century_Communications_and_Video_Accessibility_Act_of_2010).[citation needed]

The company served on the [Federal Communications Commission](/source/Federal_Communications_Commission)’s (FCC) Video Programming Accessibility Advisory Committee for benchmarking captioning TV shows via IP from 2010 to 2012, and was appointed by the FCC to help create a Closed Caption Quality Best Practices guide in 2014. From 2016 to 2020, VITAC served on the FCC’s Disability Advisory Committee, a group formed to provide advice and recommendations to the commission on a wide variety of disability issues.

## See also

- [Closed captioning](/source/Closed_captioning)
- [Subtitling](/source/Subtitle_(captioning))
- [Post Production](/source/Post-production)

## References

1. ["Verbit acquires transcription service provider VITAC"](https://venturebeat.com/business/verbit-acquires-transcription-service-provider-vitac/). *VentureBeat*. 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2022-11-07.

1. ["Verbit, Vitac's Parent Company, Acquires U.S. Captioning"](https://www.sportsvideo.org/2022/05/16/verbit-vitacs-parent-company-acquires-u-s-captioning/). *Sports Video Group*. 2022-05-16. Retrieved 2022-11-07.

1. Ravet, Hagar (2021-05-11). ["Israel's Verbit acquires U.S. caption company VITAC for $50 million"](https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3907487,00.html). *CTECH*. Retrieved 2022-11-07.

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