Global Alliance of Speech-To-Text Captioning

The Global Alliance is an association that endeavors to raise the quality of captions throughout the captioning industry by:

• Empowering consumers and captioners as they work together to influence change and policy.
• Spreading education and awareness about achieving and maintaining equal and effective communication access.
• Providing the NER-Certified Speech-to-Text Provider certification to sustain the quality of all methods of captioning.
• Providing educational and networking opportunities for captioning consumers, captioning advocates, and captioners.
  
  Our Vision:

Universal accessibility to the spoken word via all forms of captioning.

      Our Mission:

To be the leading professional authority on speech-to-text captioning, representing all captioners, consumers, and industry.

Fulfilling our vision and mission is why we exist. There is no other organization on the planet whose mission is to be the authority on every aspect of captioning. The Global Alliance exists to represent all captioners, regardless of how they produce captions or how their captions are used; all consumers, regardless of where they use captions and how; and all industry, regardless of size, history, or location.