An array of U.S.-based companies seeking to grow their client base in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are busily preparing for IBC2026, the broadcast media technology expo held each year in Amsterdam. Among the companies preparing to make a big splash is ENCO.
The goal for the company is to demonstrate how its offerings can simplify workflows, reduce operational demands and help media organizations achieve more with fewer resources — a key conversation at many broadcast media companies across North America, given the financial picture seen among the publicly traded radio station ownership groups, in particular.
For ENCO, IBC2026 will see company representatives demonstrate its latest advances across five key areas — Captioning, Translation, AI Production Tools, Automation and Virtual Production.
ENCO will appear at IBC2026 at Stand 7.A34 in the Amsterdam RAI across the conference, scheduled from September 11-14.
Highlights include the next generation of ENCO’s enCaption technology, the European debut of its enSpeak real-time voice translation solution, new AI tools for television and radio, and the IBC debut of the latest Qimera Virtual Production innovations.
With regard to captioning, ENCO will place an emphasis on the next-generation enCaption Sierra platform, offering flexible on-premises and cloud deployment while bringing continued improvements in language support and accuracy. ENCO will also showcase its Raptor cloud captioning encoder, extending the company’s captioning capabilities for modern IP and cloud-based broadcast workflows.
Of particular interest to the foreign marketplace is ENCO’s new ability to take captions and feed them into multilingual text and speech through enTranslate and enSpeak.
ENCO’s enTranslate transforms live captions into multilingual text translations in real time, while enSpeak adds natural-sounding, low-latency voice translation so audiences can hear programming in their preferred language, the company says.
Artificial Intelligence sees ENCO preview a new AI-powered video product that automatically identifies and extracts compelling segments from long-form programming for repurposing across social and digital platforms.
ENCO will also demonstrate SPOTai, which rapidly generates professional video advertisements for television, digital and social media; SPECai, its AI-powered radio advertising platform for producing broadcast-ready commercials in seconds; and aiTrack, its cloud-native, automation-agnostic platform for generating, localizing and scheduling dynamic AI-driven audio content for on-air radio.
Automation is also in the mix for ENCO, as it returns to IBC with its DAD radio automation system; its VDESK system for compelling visual radio and video production applications; and a streamlined A-LIST TV automation system.
“Broadcasters everywhere are being challenged to do more with less, and ENCO offers intelligent, easy-to-use technologies to caption and translate content, create and repurpose programming, automate daily operations and produce compelling live television and radio broadcasts,” said ENCO President Ken Frommert. “European broadcasters operate within very specific staffing and business guidelines, so technology that simplifies workflows and enables smaller teams to accomplish more can have an immediate impact. Our IBC showcase demonstrates how ENCO is applying AI for audience accessibility and automation/production tools to help broadcasters work more efficiently and increase audience size.”
