NOVI, Mich.—ENCO will make the international debut of its enTranslate Mobile for real-time, personal content translation in public spaces and showcase its enCaption and enTranslate solutions for broadcaster and live events during IBC2025, Sept. 12-15, at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Center.

ENCO developed the enTranslate platform to perform real-time, automated translations of live broadcasts and streams, VOD assets and presentations in cooperation with the fast, accurate captioning performance of enCaption solutions, ENCO said.

ENCO has consistently added support for new languages both on-prem and in cloud, which will be shown live in several on-booth demonstrations, including an enTranslate Mobile demo that will invite attendees to scan QR codes to access the platform’s Language Selector on their mobile devices. Once prompted, users can choose from several languages via the Language Selector menu, it said.

The company’s live demonstration of enCaption’s new speaker identification feature, debuting at the show, highlights the dynamic AI voice fingerprinting solution, which detects and identifies each speaker with more than one contributor. This capability is well-suited for shows with large panels like talk shows and those with multiple commentators like sports, the company said.

The technology’s AI-powered functionality is powered through a single-stream audio mix that dynamically identifies each speaker in real time upon analyzing the pitch, timber, accent and speaking style of each participant, it said.

The company will also feature enCaption feeding live captions into virtual production environments, such as the live Qimera virtual production set at its stand, which will debut at IBC this year. The Qimera demo will include green-screen technology with 3D multi-camera tracking, PTZ camera integration, 3D graphics assets and real-time data feeds, including captions that can be composited along with live camera feeds, ENCO said.

See ENCO at IBC2025 Stand 8.C76

More information is available on the company’s website.

NOVI, Mich.—ENCO has announced that it will be showing major advances to its enCaption automated captioning and translation solutions during the 2025 NAB Show between April 5-9.

Within its West Hall booth (W1743), ENCO will demonstrate a powerful new AI-driven voice fingerprinting solution for its enCaption systems that detects and identifies each speaker in real-time, based on each speaker's unique vocal characteristics. The new feature for its voice fingerprinting technology uses AI-powered functionality to dynamically identify each speaker.

“This new voice fingerprinting innovation is the latest in a series of enCaption breakthroughs developed through our adoption of AI, which continue to fuel our cycle of innovation,” said Ken Frommert, president, ENCO. “Our Speaker Identification feature analyzes the pitch, timber, accent and speaking style of each individual and uniquely identifies them as they speak, prefacing their captions with their names in real-time. By calling attention to each speaker, we can bring a higher level of readability and comprehension to the captioning experience for the hard of hearing and for audiences absorbing a broadcast or in-venue presentation in busy or noisier environments.”

During the NAB Show, ENCO will also support live stage captioning of panels and lectures for the fourth straight year, with enCaption services active on five stages across two exhibit halls.

In addition to producing and presenting real-time, live captions on stage-adjacent displays, ENCO will for the first time offer real-time translations to mobile devices via its new enTranslate Mobile platform at the NAB Main Stage in the West Hall. There ENCO will translate live panels and presentations to Spanish, French, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese and German, made accessible to spectators via posted QR codes at the entrance.

“We are also excited to demonstrate our latest achievements with language translations for non-native speakers, and notably how our enTranslate platform makes broadcasts and presentations accessible to international viewers and audiences around the world,” Frommert added. “As the live stage captioning partner for our fourth straight NAB show, we look forward to presenting the industry’s most accurate performance in live captioning and translations to global audiences in the South and West Halls.”

The company reported that ENCO’s dynamic Speaker Identification introduces another industry-first innovation to the company’s market-leading captioning systems. Based on ENCO’s latest AI implementation, enCaption identifies each speaker and then seamlessly inserts their names when identified, automatically labeling their captions in real-time. Each visual identification is based on speaker profiles added to the system for each presenter.

In addition, ENCO reported that its multilingual capability highlights the possibilities of enTranslate heading into 2025 NAB Show. ENCO, which last year introduced the ability to produce Spanish translations on-prem, will showcase enTranslate’s ability to now translate dozens of languages live either on-prem or in the cloud, along with a new Web app for displaying seven real-time translations. Furthermore, enCaption’s speaker Identification feature can also pass through to translations.

enTranslate Mobile provides a mobile-friendly alternative to erecting large translation screens for live group events while giving audiences a way to follow along on their personal devices in their language of choice. Showgoers can experience its accessibility and convenience for live multilingual translations at the NAB Main Stage and see it in action at ENCO’s Qimera Virtual Production Stage at Booth W1743. Users can scan a posted QR code at each location, choose from one of seven languages and immediately access a text stream to follow along with the discussion or presentation.

JACKSON, MO.—Link Electronics has announced its new SCA-436 SDI Caption Data Packet (CDP) Analyzer. The product is designed to analyze all aspects of the CDP in the SDI stream and present data in an easy to read format; it also identifies CDP errors.

A dual-support system, SCA-436 indicates what CEA-608 (CC1-CC4) and CEA-708 (S1-S6) captions are present. When a CDP descriptor is present, the technology will indicate what services are in the CDP descriptor. The system also ensures compliance with FCC standards for closed-captioning.

Errors are displayed on the On-Screen Display panel, as well as one of its three outputs, while the other two allow for downstream use; the length an error message is present is customizable. Link Electronics says that most CDP errors can be corrected by running the error through a captioning legalizer.

STOKCHOLM—Ericsson has announced it has signed a multi-year deal with Australian news service provider ANC to provide live captioning services to Sky News Live and Sky News Business. Ericsson will also provide captioning services for Sky News-produced bulletins on Qantas flights.

Ericsson’s real-time captioning platform supports live captioning in various languages by using speech-to-text, newsroom integration and rapid offline content preparation. The system allows multiple captioners to prepare and deliver real-time services for clients while maximizing re-use of the caption data after broadcast.

With the addition of ANC, Ericsson’s live captioning platform is now used by four of the six national TV news outlets in Australia.

FARMINGDALE, N.Y.—EEG has announced the launch of a new virtual caption encoder, the Falcon Web-Streaming Caption Encoder. Available through EEG’s Cloud Services, the Falcon offers captioning capabilities for live online content.

Falcon routes captions via EEG’s iCap real-time captioning system to Web video hosting services, including YouTube Live Events, VideoLinq, UVault, and any system running Wowza Streaming Engine. Powered through the cloud, Falcon allows live content producers to transcriptionists through iCap and route captions straight to the web-video server. With iCap, users can choose from a network of national, regional and independent professional live captioners.

Users can access the Falcon caption encoder now at www.eegcloud.tv.