VoiceInteraction is again in Amsterdam to participate in the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), from September 9th to 13th.  During the event, VoiceInteraction’s team will present the latest developments of their automatic subtitling, broadcast monitoring and compliance logging solutions at its booth (14.H18).

Automatic Live Closed Captioning

VoiceInteraction – Speech Processing Technologies, S.A. pioneered the use of speaker-independent voice recognition technology in real-time, live closed-captioning of broadcast contents through AUDIMUS.MEDIA, a fully automatic closed captioning system that, in addition to transcribing the spoken utterances, segments them according to the speaker holding the turn. The system builds on the capability of VoiceInteraction‘s speech transcription technology to operate faster than real time with speaker-independent models and very large vocabularies.

Compliance Logging and Broadcast Monitoring Solutions

Broadcasters are required to retain copies of their broadcasts for some period of time to provide evidence of compliance with legal (and other) obligations. Before digital technology has revolutionized the way we communicate, work, buy, sell and spend our time, compliance logging was carried out through long-play video-cassette decks. As the number of free-to-air and subscription broadcaster channels increased, such an approach fast proved unreliable and unpractical. Digital compliance logging and broadcast monitoring solutions came up into the market to address this challenge providing, at the same time, enhanced logging features, such as audio and video descriptions that allow for content indexation at multiple levels of granularity. For example, through image processing tools, it is possible to automatically detect shot transitions; through the use of acoustic analysis tools, we can locate specific ads within the channels programming; or, even, voice recognition technology can recognize and produce time stamps for every word uttered in a given programme, making it possible for a user of a broadcast monitoring solution to locate all occurrences of a certain entity in the channels recordings.

Media Monitoring System – Broadcast Edition

VoiceInteraction – Speech Processing Technologies, S.A. pioneered the use of speaker-independent voice recognition technology in real-time, live closed-captioning of broadcast contents. Its proprietary speech transcription technology — capable of transcribing speech from anyone speaking one of the supported languages, performing faster than real-time and with an impressive level of accuracy — also allowed VoiceInteraction to emerge more recently in this market with one of the best-performing and, yet, affordable solutions for reliable compliance recording and broadcast monitoring: Media Monitoring System — Broadcast Edition (MMS).

MMS is a fully-automatic, integrated solution for video recording, storage and retrieval, comprising real-time tools for automatic transcription, segmentation and topic indexing of broadcast (and webcast) contents. The system is installed at the client’s premises and records multiple TV channels and radio stations (according to client needs and specifications) and stores that information for long periods of time (defined in accordance with the storage capacity of the client). Simultaneously, it processes the information — through proprietary technologies of speech transcription, speaker turn detection, semantically-homogeneous content segmentation and ads detection — associated with each one of the monitored channels (online or offline, the client chooses which approach fits best its needs and processing capacity).

The Broadcast Edition of MMS incorporates a set of additional features especially created to accommodate the broadcasters’ information visualization and recording needs:

• broadcast contents synchronized with the broadcaster’s clock (a time/date overlay is added to the video as it is recorded);
• frame-by-frame browsing facilities;
• computation and display of loudness history graphs;
• display of time-synchronized TV ratings tracking measurements (based on user-supplied data)

What to expect from us at IBC 2016

VoiceInteraction will showcase the Fourth generation of AUDIMUS.MEDIA — building on the integration of deep-learning techniques in our speech processing technologies to optimize the performance of acoustic models derived from the ever-growing speech repositories –, and our MMS (Media Monitoring Solution) (an integrated solution for video recording, storage and retrieval, comprising real-time tools for automatic transcription, segmentation and topic indexing of TV contents), with special emphasis on its MMS BE (Broadcast Edition), devoted to accommodate the specific needs of TV broadcasters and Government departments, such as the Legal Recording with loudness history graphs.

In addition to watching the demos available at our booth, our visitors will have the opportunity to gain some insight into a broader range of proven speech processing solutions, such as Speech Transcription Systems for court, medical, parliament and council proceedings, TTS and ASR Engines for IVRs and Speech Analytics in Call Centres, and Embodied Conversational Agents for multi-modal applications.

We are looking forward to receiving your visit at our booth Pavilion 14 stand H18. If you wish to schedule a meeting during the event for more thorough discussions with Prof. João Neto, CEO of VoiceInteraction, please, send us a Meeting Request to the email ibc2016@voiceinteraction.tv.

About IBC

IBC is a long-established annual event where more than 1,500 companies show the latest innovations and specialist technologies in electronic media and entertainment across 14 Halls. IBC 2016 will be held at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, 09 to 13 September 2016.

About VoiceInteraction

VoiceInteraction was created in 2008 as a technological spin-off from the INESC-ID, Lisbon, providing cutting-edge speech recognition technology, such as an online speaker-independent speech transcription system that has led to the creation of fully automatic live subtitling systems for TV broadcasters and media monitoring solutions for clipping service providers,  in addition to speech synthesis technology for building customized voices to accommodate the branding needs of its clients.