The BBC was very influential in the early development of the adoption of speech recognition techniques for live subtitling, being the first customer for SysMedia's SpeakTITLE product. SysMedia continues to work closely with what is now Red Bee Media to expand the use of speech recognition into more languages. For instance, in early 2007 Red Bee Media opened its new office in Paris with French national broadcaster M6 as its first client, both parties were very pleased with the quality of live subtitling on the channel's flagship news bulletins, made possible with SysMedia's WinCAPS.

Red Bee Media Australia also uses WinCAPS for live news for the Seven network and SBS. In 2006, the Australian Caption Centre (as the organisation was then known) equipped its new Melbourne office with WinCAPS to cover live subtitling for the Seven network nationwide, with the associated challenge of time zones. The Sunrise breakfast programme, for example, is transmitted between six and nine every weekday morning, broadcast live locally but delayed by up to three hours for other parts of Australia. The only element of the programme that changes is the local traffic updates, which are recorded just minutes before transmission with up to five separate reports on-air simultaneously. Using some unique fast off-line subtitling techniques SysMedia were able to support ACC in rising to this challenge without needing extra real-time captioners.

"The two most important things that sold us on the WinCAPS system were its sophisticated newsroom computer interface and its effective integration of speech recognition applications for speech captioning," said ACC CEO Robert Scott. "Both of these attributes combine to realise significant efficiencies in our workflow."

Welsh broadcaster, S4C use WinCAPS extensively for both off-line (recorded) and live subtitling with a SysMedia ProSTAR system handling automated playout of teletext subtitles in both English and Welsh.

S4C (literally Sianel Pedwar Cymru = Channel Four Wales) is the sole broadcaster of Welsh language TV programmes in the UK, mostly at peak viewing times. It is therefore unique in the UK offering bilingual programming and actively promoting the Welsh language. Dual language subtitling is therefore vital for both the deaf and hard of hearing and non-Welsh speakers - and occasional translations even assist those learning the language too.

Commenting after enhancements in 2006 Arshad Rasul, Director of Engineering for S4C, complimented SysMedia's responsiveness, "They have listened to our requirements at every step and reacted well to improve the product. I am delighted to say that we have now achieved our objectives and substantially reduced our operational overhead."

In November 2007 France 3 started to deploy SysMedia's SDR7 Teletext-DVB subtitle transcoder across its DTT network. The units were chosen because they can fit easily into the existing broadcast infrastructure and existing subtitle preparation and playout workflows while providing improved subtitle display for the viewer at very low bandwidth.

France 3, the second largest public television network in France, uses the SDR7s to deliver subtitles for its regional digital terrestrial operations. The unit extracts block or scrolling mode subtitle data from an incoming SDI or composite video teletext feed, converts each update into a DVB bitmap and delivers it via an ASI output to the multiplexer. It can also be instructed to generate subtitles directly using a TCP/IP protocol. The DVB output is an equivalent representation of the teletext subtitle (text, layout, timing, colour, horizontal and vertical position), but presented in a more visually appealing style. The SDR7s provide accurate conversion without throughput delay, providing high quality results on screen.

Belgian broadcaster VMMA started using WinCAPS for live news subtitling services on VTM in 2007. WinCAPS is interfaced to its iNews newsroom system for scripted content, with live input by keyboard, Velotype or speech recognition. Output is via its Polistream subtitle transmission system. The sale was the first to result from the strategic alliance between SysMedia and Screen Subtitling Systems (makers of Polistream).

"As recently as May this year we were asked to investigate the possibility of subtitling our live news programmes for the deaf and hard of hearing audience. Timing was extremely tight: a final "go" or "no-go" was expected before the beginning of June and the system should then be on-air by September. The tight integration between our existing Screen on-air platform, its iNews interface, the support for speech recognition and dual keyboard of the WinCAPS' platform were key elements in our decision. During installation we were very pleased to find that the overall system worked straight out of the box. The 19:00 news is subtitled daily. Next steps include reuse of captured subtitles for a VOD version of the news, other news shows and different live programmes," says Chris Verhoeven, manager TV-productions, VMMA speaking soon after the system went live in 2007

ARD, the German national public service broadcaster, along with regional counterpart for Berlin and Brandenburg Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), started using WinCAPS in the summer of 2005 for both live and off-line subtitling.

ARD/RBB, with assistance from the respected Titelbild subtitling and translation company (now part of Red Bee Media), quickly put the new live subtitling facilities to good use for the Winter Olympics the following year. They were then able to provide previously unseen levels of subtitling during live coverage of the 2006 football World Cup - adding interviews, pre and post-match analysis and background stories to the captioned live match coverage.

Live subtitles were generated using a mixture of speech recognition and SysMedia's unique SUBMUX dual keyboard technology to achieve the throughput and accuracy required.