One of VoiceInteraction’s continuous endeavor is to take our automatic captions to new applications/domains. One of the key factors of success is ensuring that subtitles are easily used in whatever workflow we might find in our customers. It seems like yesterday (but it’s almost 10 years now…) that we started to integrate our live automatic subtitling system with FAB – Teletext & Captioning Systems so RTP – Radio Televisão Portuguesa viewers could have access automatic captions in Teletext for live programming

When we expanded our activities to the Brazilian market new integrations were made with Closed Captioning encoders (Evertz, EEG and Link Electronics) and with local partners (EiTV) so our live captions could be delivered in a completely different system than the one that is deployed in Europe.

Now it’s time to move forward towards SDI-free workflows, so we’ve just added DVB-Subtitling over MPEG-TS so IP-based content producers can easily ingest our caption streams in their IP encoders (Harmonics).

This new addition complements the existing integration with Wowza’s Streaming Engine which allows delivering captions to multiple devices in multiple formats (and even Youtube Live and Facebook Live).

But to be able to present a solution to even more video production workflows we also made available live captions in the following formats (over TCP, UDP unicast/multicast):

• EBU-TT-D: Captioning Distribution Format defined by European Broadcasting Union.
• SMTPE-TT: Timed Text Format defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
• IMSC: TTML Profiles for Internet Media Captions and Captions 1.0 defined by Word Wide Web Consortium.
• Matroska SRT: SRT captions has defined by Matroska.
• JSON: a JSON format defined by VoiceInteraction.
• HTML5 Server-Sent events: defined in HTML 5 specification.

So, no matter what is captions delivery scenario, VoiceInteraction has the right solution for you.