Overview

Overview

ICS — CAPTIONS is an automated solution for all kinds of captioning needs, allowing broadcasters and media professionals to address requirements from caption generation to QC, auto corrections, review, and editing. Leveraging cutting-edge machine learning (ML) and automatic speech recognition technology, ICS — CAPTIONS brings simplicity and cost savings to the creation, management, and delivery of captions for traditional TV and video streaming.

ICS — CAPTIONS is a one-stop solution for all captioning needs. It offers advanced capabilities for:

  1. QC and Correction: Check quality of the captions with respect to audio and auto correct the errors found
  2. Caption generation: Transcribe audio and create captions from audio. It is in the same language as the audio. With captioning, subtitles in foreign languages can also be created in the same task
  3. Subtitling: Create subtitles from existing captions files or audio. To create subtitles from audio, captioning task should be used which performs captioning first
  4. Re-captioning: Convert captions parameters (frame rate, start time code etc.) to match different video deliveries

Key Highlights

  1. Uses state-of-the-art speech recognition technology to provide accurate times to dialog in your script
  2. Provides result with confidence score for easy review
  3. Generates subtitles from captions
  4. Re-generates captions from the existing ones with different settings
  5. Integrates with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engine for generating captions
  6. Checks and reports:
    1. Alignment issues or inaccuracies with respect to content audio
    2. Drops in captions or audio
    3. Compliance issues
    4. Reading speed, character and row count in a dialog, dialog interval, screen placement and much more
  7. Supports all embedded and side car formats, all major text and doc formats
  8. Offers various correction capabilities, such as:
    1. Captions alignment
    2. Correction of inaccurate captions with respect to suggested timecodes
  9. Provides multi-lingual support including English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Finnish, Polish and more languages
  10. Provides rich set of APIs for QC, Captioning, Subtitling, and Recaptioning

Usage Model

Following illustration depicts the use model of ICS — CAPTIONS:


Read on to know about:
  1. User Interface
  2. Captions Setup
  3. Schemes
  4. File Submission
  5. Task Report
  6. Payments