"The new system helps ensure all members of our community have access to Village programs," said Mayor Craig Johnson. The Village's proactive efforts to provide equal opportunity access to content comes at a time when public, educational, and government agencies are currently exempt from video captioning requirements. As a machine learning system, this advanced technology will continue to improve over time and increase to 95% accuracy within just a few months. There’s a lot of innovation taking place in the captioning industry, bringing more value to more people, and in the process, giving you more ways to keep in touch with your audience.īill Bennett is media solutions account manager for ENCO Systems.When first installed, the accuracy of the closed-captioning system begins at about 80%. Therefore, if you’ve got an on-premises captioning system that’s not being used for real-time all the time, why not use it in file-based mode and caption the thousands of hours of legacy video you already have? Just like with live video, this can make your content more accessible to more people (and search engines), is good for business and it gives your content that “third rail.” While the FCC regulates only some captioning for online streaming and OTT/VOD applications, the Americans with Disabilities Act may impact other aspects, and there are many organizations committed to growing accessibility standards across all media (some who are not afraid to bring lawsuits in the process). PLUS: The Importance of Automating Live Captioning in Broadcastingīe sure to consider what you're captioning online, as well.
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Since it costs less using smart AI automation, why not use it to caption more of your audio feeds? How about captioning the audio associated with ISO camera feeds you may have at sporting or other special events? You don't always have enough resources to monitor all the audio or video coming in from these ISO feeds, but by using an ASR to caption automatically, you can set up software to alert you when certain keywords are said on these audio feeds-helping improve your real-time access to more content faster and automatically (whether producing a live broadcast or in post production).
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Automated captioning means the more you caption (both live and offline files), the more economical ASR products become. Nowadays you can search YouTube videos with the results limited to only videos that are captioned-if you have any video that’s not captioned, it won't even show up in the results. Moreover, this capability doesn't just have to be available to your producers, as you can easily bring such access online to your website and your viewers.
It then quickly becomes an easy task to search across all the feeds you’re recording, making it instantly possible to find the conversation, brand or person’s name you're looking for, with “point and click” precision. Many of these types of products allow for the logging of all the caption data-aligned with the video-such that you can jump to an index point just by just clicking on the caption. With more television broadcasters using automated video logging and compliance software, they may already have a powerful tool there to make captions even more useful. When you caption everything, interesting possibilities start to emerge.
Then there’s the opposite scenario, where your viewers are watching from a quiet location where they don't want to disturb anyone near them-captions make it possible for them to enjoy your content there too (you do caption everything, right?). Thanks to captions, you can still gain insights into any of the other games being shown by reading their captions. Ever been in a restaurant with lots of TV’s on a weekend-how many different sports games are on at the same time? And yet, the PA system is likely playing only one play-by-play.
Though there’s an estimated 48 million Americans who report being hard of hearing or deaf, captions serve an even larger audience than that. This means as a broadcaster, you have more ways to address your viewers than just video and sound. While traditional captions have just included the dialog, today we see more value-added captions, such as the name of a song that’s playing or sound effects in the program. Captioning is the “third rail” of your transmission media-you have video, audio and you have captions.
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