SyncWords, a privately owned company headquartered in the US, was founded in 2013 and employs approximately 30 individuals, reporting $2.4M in revenue as of 2024. The company specializes in media managed services, offering a cloud-based software solution that includes auto-transcription, closed caption authoring and editing, live translation, automatic positioning of on-screen text, and automatic alignment of text to speech.
SyncWords and Signapse announced a partnership on September 8, 2026, to deliver automated live American Sign Language (ASL) to broadcasters and streaming platforms. This collaboration integrates SyncWords’ live text with a Signapse AI Digital Signer, offering cloud-based ASL translation and a photorealistic ASL signer without requiring additional equipment or specialized hardware. This follows the September 4, 2026 announcement where SyncWords and Capella Systems revealed an integrated live-streaming workflow. This solution brings AI-generated captions and multilingual subtitles to existing broadcast and OTT infrastructure by converting DVB-TTML subtitles for OTT delivery. Earlier, on August 26, 2026, the companies had announced this same integrated workflow, detailing its combination of SyncWords’ real-time AI captioning and translation with Capella Systems’ Cambria Stream live encoder.
SyncWords's customers primarily consist of broadcast television and radio and translation and Localization companies. Examples of SyncWords's customers include CBS News, Viacom and Lionbridge. SyncWords has partners like Kaltura.