NEW YORK — With NAB Show New York formally opening its exhibit hall on Wednesday at the Javits Center, ENCO is ready to formally debut its first closed caption encoder.
Introducing DoCaption EN848, available separately or as part of ENCO’s enCaption system. It offers users an on-premise or cloud option for automated conversion and delivery of captions and translations.
The EN848’s availability provides broadcasters with the opportunity to deploy the system over the IP network, with connectivity to enCaption for cloud-based captioning services such as those offered by ENCO partner VITAC. The EN848’s dual connectivity options also allow broadcasters to deploy redundant captioning workflows with immediate failover from cloud to on-prem should the network temporarily go dark.
ENCO will demonstrate the core functions and deployment options for the EN848 on Wednesday and Thursday at the Javits Center, where ENCO exhibits at Booth 907.
The EN848’s core function is to reliably insert closed captions coming from any source downstream in compliance with global captioning standards.
The EN848 conforms to a broad range of closed captioning specifications, including the encoding and insertion of CEA-608/CEA-708, and Teletext/OP47 ancillary data for standardized and legacy communication protocols.
The EN848 is a direct result of ENCO’s 2023 acquisition of DoCaption, a strategic move that brought DoCaption’s engineering talent and proven ancillary data technology in house. The now singular ENCO engineering team developed the EN848 in collaboration, emerging with a software-defined, FPGA-based ultra-low latency SDI captions encoder and inserter that can be powered by human or advanced speech recognition (ASR) sources both on-prem and in the cloud. For on-prem workflows, the EN848 offers a specially engineered server to process ASR sources from enCaption systems.
ENCO President Ken Frommert commented, “While compliance and reliability remain the core function of the closed caption encoder, the EN848 was developed with bigger aspirations in mind. The EN848 was purpose-built to natively pair with enCaption, removing the need for a third-party device and offer broadcasters a single source of support. We have updated DoCaption’s proven technology and packaged it into a turnkey 1RU solution that broadcasters can deploy in flexible ways that optimize redundancy, and quality and provide direct access to cloud services from companies such as VITAC.”
— Reporting by Brian Galante, for Tech Roundup
