Ai-Media: How Broadcasters Can Simplify Captioning with Ai-Media

Most broadcasters looking to utilize captioning have three main goals.

Firstly, they want to caption more content than ever as they expand into over-the-top (OTT) streaming. Secondly, they want to power this through APIs and the cloud, without increasing on-premises infrastructure and human workflows. And thirdly, they want to reduce the cost of captions through new technology.

As the leader in captioning technology, Ai-Media allows broadcasters to tick all these boxes. Its captioning solutions are trusted by the world’s best broadcasters to not only ensure accessibility compliance, but also provide an enhanced viewer experience.

A Broadcast Captioning One-Stop Shop

In 2021, two of the world’s leading captioning innovators became one when Ai-Media acquired EEG Enterprises – a company that has for decades been the captioning partner choice for the world’s leading broadcasters.

EEG’s vast suite of captioning encoder technology – a long-time staple of the broadcasting industry – today forms the backbone of Ai-Media’s market offering, together with its AI-powered Lexi automatic live captioning solution.

In Ai-Media, broadcasters around the globe have access to a true one-stop shop of end-to-end captioning solutions, helping them provide a more accessible and engaging viewer experience.

“Our acquisition of EEG allows us to deliver a full stack solution that clients can plug directly into their studio infrastructure and seamlessly handle everything, from capturing audio and video in real-time to managing cloud systems,” says Bill McLaughlin, chief product officer of Ai-Media.

Lexi – The world’s leading AI-powered captions

One of Ai-Media’s most innovative solutions is Lexi, which is revolutionizing the way leading broadcasters live caption their content. The solution uses the power of AI to deliver results that rival human captions at a fraction of the cost.

No longer must broadcasters rely on human captioners to accurately caption their content. The subscription-based Lexi is fast closing the gap, providing a highly accurate and reliable captioning solution without the sizable per hour costs typical of human captions.

Cloud caption encoding with iCap Alta

For a fully cloud, end-to-end live captioning solution, Lexi seamlessly integrates with Ai-Media’s iCap Alta encoder, which allows broadcasters to benefit from captioning in IP video environments. A fully virtualized, API-powered pure software system, iCap Alta provides a resilient workflow for live multilingual captions across both compressed and uncompressed IP video.

iCap Alta is designed to help broadcasters seamlessly transition from hardware-driven SDI workflows to software-controlled IP video environments. It helps save time and reduce costs with streamlined, next-generation workflows that are software-driven and native IP.
iCap Alta is configured for processing either MPEG Transport Streams, SMPTE 2110 or CDI uncompressed IP video. And it supports SRT protocol, which helps enhance the security, resiliency and quality of your video when streaming over unpredictable networks.

Some of the world’s leading broadcasters use iCap Alta to caption their content reliably, flexibly and securely. The solution makes it easy to broadcast high quality video with captions for any need – whether for a TV broadcast or OTT platform.

Ai-Media provides all the next-gen tech you need

When you add Lexi and iCap Alta together, broadcasters finally have a complete end-to-end solution that offers full coverage, high quality live captions at low cost. And not only that, one that supports a modern cloud-based approach that allows broadcasters to fully leverage automated workflows.

With Ai-Media, broadcasters can rely on a provider with a decades-long history as the industry’s captioning leader, and one that combines this expertise with the latest innovative, AIpowered technology.