ENCO Expands Global Captioning Capabilities
ENCO has made significant strides in the technical and operational aspects of its market-leading enCaption4 solution for automated closed-captioning. The latest advancements in accuracy include a dictionary database that has been expanded to 29 languages, making enCaption4 a viable solution with true ROI value for broadcasters worldwide.
The company's patented, Artificial Intelligence-driven solution allows new languages to be added on short notice, leveraging breakthroughs in machine-learning technology. Furthermore, integration with popular newsroom computer systems from ENPS and Octopus among others takes advantage of news scripts and rundowns to learn and validate the spelling of local names and terminology.
New Speech-to-Text Engine for enCaption4
The latest improvements in accuracy include a new speech-to-text engine for enCaption4 that takes real-time accuracy to unprecedented levels, along with workflow efficiencies that range from NDI compatibility to captioning for live and on-demand streams.
enCaption4's higher speed benchmark closes the gap between live speech and the corresponding caption display for an overall improved viewer experience, with accuracy rates now regularly exceeding 90 percent.
Interoperable Workflows with enCaption
For the first time in Europe, ENCO will demonstrate enCaption's new NDI compatibility, which simplifies the captioning workflow by eliminating the need for specialized encoding hardware. enCaption4 can now automatically generate captions through its NDI input stream, and output an NDI signal with captions keyed directly on top of the video stream.
This interoperability also offers a strong and reliable solution for accurate closed captioning within live web and social media streams, such as Facebook Live.
Collaborative Solution with StreamGuys
In further support of captioning needs for online video, ENCO will demonstrate its collaborative solution with StreamGuys – co-exhibiting at ENCO's IBC stand – for the automatic generation of captioning in live and on-demand streams. The workflow covers both transcriptions of new recordings, and captions for pre-recorded files that exist in the archives.
Users also have the power to search the captioned content and can export the resulting captioning files (SRT or VTT), and save transcripts of any selected media content for later use.