It’s 2 AM. You’re watching a thriller in bed. Your partner is asleep. The sound is off. You’ve got captions on because you can’t hear anything, but you still want to watch. A tense scene. The detective is examining evidence at a crime scene. On screen, ambient music swells. Tension building. The music is doing […]
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With the increasing demand for accurate and efficient transcription, automated transcription software has become more prevalent in recent years. However, many people still prefer to rely on human transcribers for their transcription needs. In this blog, we will explore the pros and cons of both human and machine transcription. We will also consider factors such
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Before we get into the details of learning everything about transcription, let us first understand why transcription came to gain so much importance. Studies show that the average adult in the USA spends 11 hours per day accessing some form of media and a staggering 6 hours watching videos. With such rapid media consumption, we
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It’s 11 PM on a Wednesday. You’re lying in bed. Your partner is already asleep. You want to watch an episode of that show everyone’s talking about, but your sound is off. Volume would wake them up. You turn on captions out of necessity. Just for tonight. Just to get through one episode. Three episodes
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A localization coordinator gets a platform rejection notice. The subtitle file was delivered, formatted correctly, timed well, but it’s the wrong type. The platform needed SDH. The team sent non-SDH.+ This mix-up happens more often than it should, mostly because the two file types look nearly identical on screen. A viewer scrolling through settings sees
A breaking news alert interrupts regular programming. Viewers with hearing loss, viewers in a loud waiting room, viewers watching with the sound off on a train, all of them rely on one thing to understand what is happening: the caption track appearing at the bottom of the screen in real time. If that caption is
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We are pleased to announce that our product MetadataIQ has won in this year’s Media & Entertainment: Best in Market 2022 Awards, presented by TV Tech. The awards aim to recognize the very best in innovative products from the last 12 months that have made an impact within the media and entertainment industries. Our product
In this webinar we discussed how to: – Off-the-shelf integration with Avid Interplay™ to automate the end-to-end speech-to-text generation and video intelligence metadata for Avid-based assets. – Automatically submitting media for transcription, captioning, and translations from within the existing workflow. – Operators can create and ingest different kinds of metadata, including – speech-to-text, facial recognition,
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A compliance officer at a regional broadcaster gets a viewer complaint. The captions on last night’s newscast were technically present, but half the audience couldn’t read them. The font was too thin, the background was semi-transparent over a bright scene, and the text sat so close to the screen edge that some TVs cropped it.
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A vendor delivers your captions. The file is clean, accurate, and perfectly timed. Your broadcast playout rejects it. Not because the captioning was wrong. Because you needed 708 captions in an MCC file and received an SRT built for web. Same words. Wrong type. Two days lost. That is the part nobody explains when they
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