Save 40-80% over the costs of manual captioning

News Monitors’ linguistics technology breakthrough revolutionizes the closed captioning process. The Live Captioning Appliance is a cost effective, fully functional server installed with AppTek’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) media software that delivers fully automated, same-language captions for live content with accuracy and speed that match or exceed human captioning.

  • Save money – Automates expensive, time-consuming manual tasks of transcribing and captioning programming.
  • Improve content management– Maintains accuracy and consistency across all content channels through automatic transcription and translation.
  • Create rich metadata– Search engine optimization for archives, websites, news departments, program libraries, etc.
  • Faster time to market and faster return on investment – Leverage one single platform with less upfront work across multiple enterprise applications

Fast & Accurate Live Captioning

The Live Captioning Appliance uses AppTek’s Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) to deliver fully automated, same-language captions for live content in English, Spanish and Arabic (Chinese and Portuguese are in pre-release development).  The appliance was developed for and trained on broadcast news, sports, weather, and other factual programming.