New software: Captune

TV as you’ve never “read it”.

Captune, a real-time transcription AI-powered speech recognition software for Broadcast applications, is designed to provide real-time transcription of audio broadcasted on the digital terrestrial platform, ensuring high efficiency, reliability, and speed. At the core of the system is an advanced speech recognition engine powered by artificial intelligence, enabling the conversion of speech into text while adapting to various needs, languages, and use cases. The software integrates seamlessly into professional broadcast workflows, providing accurate and synchronized subtitle generation with minimal latency. Thanks to its advanced technology, Captune supports live production environments by delivering consistent performance and improving the accessibility and quality of audiovisual content across different broadcasting platforms.

This is not a traditional Speech-To-Text transcriber: the AI can interpret speech based on context, allowing for more accurate and reliable subtitles. Instead of simply converting spoken words into text, Captune analyzes the meaning of conversations to improve transcription quality and reduce recognition errors. The system automatically capitalizes proper names, adds quotation marks to citations, provides translations for foreign-language segments, and even recognizes music and background noises. These intelligent features allow the generation of more natural, complete, and readable subtitles, improving the overall quality of broadcast content and ensuring a professional solution for live television productions, where accuracy, timing, and consistency are essential for modern broadcasting workflows.

The system’s key features include:

 

• • System for injecting subtitles into the DVB stream
    

     

    • • separate track from the video
    • • main/backup stream management
    • • PCR restamping via feedback loop

• • Insertion of EIA/CEA 608 subtitles
    

     

    • • injection into ancillary data for the ATSC standard
    • • passthrough of incoming subtitles (when available)

• • SDI output
    

     

    • • internal keyer
    • • Fill+Key mode

• • NDI output with alpha channel

• • Remote operability via network commands

• • Customizable graphic output