NAB. Closed captioning tools are having a breakthrough in the market, developed by companies such as Enco, explained Gilbert Felix, director of International Sales of the company, during NAB Show 2017, held in Las Vegas.
"We have the closed captioning tool not only in Mexico, available throughout Latin America. The enCaption3 we are launching, which has the ability to distinguish between several speakers. If you have two or three people talking simultaneously you can tell who is doing it in reference to the microphone. You have the opportunity to edit around the name in a differentiated way."
He said: "Not everyone is a TV customer; there are also government offices, churches, or anyone who is interested in having audio on a monitor. We launched this open captioning without the need for a close captioning encoder; there is only one transmission from voice to transcription on the monitor."
He pointed out as an advantage that the delay is less than a second, while the normal captioning has four to seven seconds of delay without having how to modify it. "Tests are being conducted in three languages in the cloud. The speaker is placed and the text comes out; if something goes wrong it comes back and corrects itself. One customer is Mexico's Capital 21 channel. They performed a test naming cities in Mexico and 90% were correct; they didn't give credit to efficiency," he said.
