New Cutting-edge Live Captioning Feature, Offers Seamless Accessibility

Tyngsboro, Mass. – April 10, 2024 – In today’s digital landscape, live captioning has evolved beyond its traditional role, becoming essential for a diverse audience, including those with hearing impairments, non-native English speakers, and individuals in noisy environments. Captions have become indispensable for enhancing comprehension and engagement across various settings, ensuring inclusivity in live content.

Recognizing this increasing need, Broadcast Pix™ proudly announces the integration of VoCaption live captioning into its line of Hybrid solutions. VoCaption, an innovative automated live captioning solution, enables users to initiate and pause live captions seamlessly from their Broadcast Pix Hybrid system’s user interface. Leveraging advanced ASR (automatic speech recognition) technology, VoCaption converts live speech to text with unparalleled accuracy, revolutionizing live events, meetings, and webinars.

Broadcast Pix’s Hybrid systems now feature this groundbreaking capability, empowering users to generate live, accurate captions effortlessly with just one click. This integration signifies a significant advancement in live production technology, allowing users to utilize ASR software directly within their system without relying on third-party platforms. VoCaption’s impressive accuracy rate ranging from the mid to high 90s significantly enhances accessibility and engagement, benefiting Broadcast Pix users and their audiences.

Key Highlights of VoCaption Integration:

  1. Ease of Use: Broadcast Pix Hybrid systems now seamlessly integrate VoCaption, enabling users to generate live, accurate captions automatically with ease. This feature eliminates the need for third-party platforms, allowing users to utilize ASR software directly within their system. VoCaption seamlessly converts live audio into real-time captions, enhancing accessibility. Integrated into Broadcast Pix FX Hybrid, MX Hybrid, GX Hybrid, and Roadie Systems, VoCaption offers enhanced flexibility and versatility, allowing users to start or stop live captioning effortlessly from Broadcast Pix’s configurable user interfaces.
  2. Enhanced Accuracy: VoCaption achieves an impressive accuracy rate of over 90-95%, surpassing the typical 80% accuracy of online streaming platforms. Users can further enhance accuracy with features like the custom dictionary, ensuring precise and reliable captions even in challenging audio environments.
  3. Video Content Optimization: VoCaption includes Automatic EBU Timed Text File Creation, enabling the automatic generation of EBU Timed Text (EBU-TT) files for various functions such as subtitle production, archiving, and live subtitling. Additionally, adding captions to videos enhances their SEO ranking, improving accessibility and audience reach.

“We are thrilled to introduce ASR-driven VoCaption integration to our line of Hybrid Integrated Production systems,” said David Bowes, CEO at Broadcast Pix. “This unique feature represents a significant leap forward in live production technology, offering our users unmatched accuracy and convenience in generating live captions. We believe VoCaption will revolutionize the way content creators deliver accessible live programming.”

Experience VoCaption integration in action at the NAB 2024 show at Booth C3106. For more information about VoCaption and Broadcast Pix’s integrated production systems, visit www.broadcastpix.com.

VoCaption is a live captioning solution developed by our new partners at BroadStream Solutions. You can learn more about how this powerful system works as a stand-alone solution by visiting BroadStream’s website.

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About Broadcast Pix

Broadcast Pix™ (https://broadcastpix.com) has been simplifying live production for its users since 2002. They offer a comprehensive set of live production tools seamlessly integrated into one easy-to-use system. Their integrated production solutions have patented control and automation technologies with cost-effective, secure cloud services for backup, control, and collaboration through the BPNet ecosystem. Each system features hybrid SDI and IP I/O, full support for 1080p/60 and 4K processing, and built-in streaming, recording, and audio mixing – in one integrated production system. Additionally, they offer AI-powered solutions for captioning, transcriptions, and translations to make video content more accessible online, thanks to their partnership with BroadStream Solutions (https://broadstream.com). Their diverse customer base spans over 100 countries, including those in government, broadcast, live events, and visual radio industries.

Broadcast Pix, BPswitch, RadioPix, and StreamingPix are trademarks of Broadcast Pix, Inc.

Broadcast Pix Contact:
Sarah Madio, Broadcast Pix Inc.
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t: +1.978.600.1100