IBC 2023 concluded Monday (9/18) at the RAI in Amsterdam, and this year’s event saw radio and TV software technology company ENCO come armed with what it calls its “strongest value proposition for broadcasters seeking a one-stop captioning workflow for their broadcast and media content.”
Along with new enhancements to its AI-based enCaption5 automated live captioning and transcription solution, IBC brought the launch of ENCO’s new closed caption encoder, a product born through ENCO’s July acquisition of DoCaption.
The 1RU uses DoCaption’s proven existing architecture, fanless design and redundant power supplies to provide broadcasters with a closed captioning encoder with modular options to support regional captioning and subtitling standards. The 1RU captioning encoder inserts captions into live broadcasts from any live captioning source via existing captioning standards through an IP or serial connection. It can also integrate directly with ENCO’s own enCaption automated captioning system for a complete turnkey solution.
“The introduction of our new DoCaption hardware captioning encoder provides an immediate turnkey solution for customers that need to build or replace closed captioning infrastructure,” ENCO President Ken Frommert said. “In the bigger picture, this product represents the endless possibilities for developing new products, features and applications in collaboration with DoCaption’s engineering team.”
ENCO adds that its new DoCaption closed caption encoder “is a prime example of how developers have built an integrated captioning workflow solution to encode and present ancillary data” for North American captioning standards (CEA-608 and CTA-708, formerly EIA-708/CEA-708), European subtitling standards (EBUTeletext OP-42/OP-47/ST-2031) and South American captioning standards (ARIB B37). The same modular architecture can support additional ancillary data applications, including SCTE 104 metadata insertion and frame-accurate scoreboard data encoding/decoding.
— With reporting by Brian Galante, in Amsterdam
