Take 1, a privately owned UK-based company founded in 1998, offers transcription, access, and localization services to the media and entertainment sector. Employing approximately 130 people, the company's most recent annual revenue (2023) was less than $25 million. Take 1 is a subsidiary of Verbit.ai.
Deepdub and Verbit announced a partnership on an unspecified date to integrate Deepdub's Emotive Text-to-Speech system with Verbit's Captivate captioning technology. This collaboration aims to create broadcast-ready dubbed audio from captioned media. The companies developed a solution allowing Verbit's media and enterprise customers to generate dubbed audio directly from Verbit's platform. Separately, Verbit announced plans to showcase new media accessibility solutions at the IBC Show in Amsterdam from September 12-15, 2025, including advancements in live and post-production captioning, localization, short-form video captioning, and real-time speaker identification.
Take 1's customers primarily consist of graphics, consumer gaming and media managed services companies. Examples of Take 1's customers include ITV Studios, Karma and Hyper Studios. Examples of Take 1's suppliers include Fabric and Xytech Systems.