The TTV acquisition provides ENCO with a broader reach into the growing multi-generational Hispanic television market inside the US and abroad by offering broadcasters an on-premises option for advanced translation of live Spanish-language TV captioning, with plans to develop a global solution specific to AV applications.
Sentinel supports cost-effective, real-time quality monitoring solutions for automated captions – an especially valuable solution to keep broadcasters compliant with FCC closed-captioning standards related to accuracy, synchronization, and completeness.
TTV uses patented software to translate English closed captions into Spanish in real-time. While ENCO offers Spanish translation today within its flagship, automated enTranslate service – along with 45 other languages – enTranslate today only supports cloud-based processing for translation. Offering a fully on-premises captioning and translation system enables new business opportunities with customers that prefer to host their own systems and remain independent of the cloud.
ENCO will leverage the same technology to develop an on-premises Spanish-language translation and captioning solution for financial institutions, corporations, government bodies and universities that restrict access to sensitive information. TTV’s open development platform will also allow ENCO engineers to make continuous speed and accuracy improvements, and add new languages moving forward for both broadcast and AV customers.
According to ENCO President Ken Frommert, ENCO will augment the possibilities of TTV technology in both broadcast and AV environments through native integration with ENCO’s enCaption automated captioning workflow. That proven technology workflow will also pave the way for open captioning of meetings, classes, worship services and other AV-related events.
ENCO’s cloud-based enTranslate is available today as a plug-in to enCaption automated captioning and translation systems. Frommert expects to adapt a similar approach to TTV to ensure that customers who elect for an on-premises version similarly have a complete, reliable and well-integrated captioning and translation solution. All ENCO enCaption solutions leverage A.I. based deep learning and speech recognition algorithms to deliver the most accurate and consistent live captions and translations in broadcast and AV.
