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YOUTUBE AUTO-CAPS: HYPE OR HELP: December 2009: YouTube's new automatic captions should not be seen as a cheap substitute for human subtitlers. Google's recent announcement admits that 'the captions will not always be perfect'. "In practice they vary from quite impressive to truly awful; and subtitlers understand only too well the reasons why", observes Andrew Lambourne, commenting on how SysMedia is now harnessing automatic speech recognition technology for more efficient subtitling workflows - where human subtitlers are still an essential element.; YouTube auto-caps: no substitute for human subtitlers
FIRST CUSTOMERS EMBRACE NEW WINCAPS INSERT PLAYER: November 2009: France's TVS and Portugal's Dialectus are now using the new WinCAPS InSERT Player. This self-contained subtitle playout and inserter unit offers both ease of use and simplicity of installation for teletext subtitle dubbing.; First customers for new load-n-go WinCAPS InSERT Player
TELEVISA AND SUPERCANAL USE WINCAPS: November 2009: Becoming the first broadcast customer in Latin America, Mexico's Televisa Deportes Network (TDN) now creates subtitles for international sports content using WinCAPS and its Final Cut Pro export function to provide a very quick and cost-effective workflow, that's up to 10 times faster than previously. In Argentina, Supercanal, the country's second largest cable operator, has also installed WinCAPS to caption news and other live programming, using speech recognition.; TDN and Supercanal deploy WinCAPS
RED BEE MEDIA FRANCE SUBTITLES LIVE WEBCASTS: September 2009: Red Bee Media is successfully using WinCAPS with the InVISION character generator to subtitle live webcasts. They provide real-time French subtitles for the PPR group, which includes the Gucci and Puma brands, for the live announcement of its quarterly financial results - including both scripted and live question and answer sessions.; Live webcast subtitling by Red Bee Media France
SYSMEDIA BRINGS TELETEXT TO KENYA: August 2009: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation has started to provide the country's first ever teletext transmissions after taking delivery of a SysMedia teletext system. As advertising revenues grow it is hoped to expand this new service to include additional channels, automated contribution handling and scheduled page updates.; Kenya's first teletext system
THREE-SCREEN PUBLISHING WITH MOBILE GOLD: September 2009: IBC: SysMedia's Plasma Gold interactive content origination platform has now been extended from DTT, cable, satellite and IPTV set-top boxes to supply mobile phones and PCs too in one highly cost-effective product. Plasma Gold debuts a brand new concept in the production of interactive content, and breaks down the technology barriers that have impeded launching interactive and channel-enhancing services for operators and content owners over the last decade.; Mobile Gold for 3-screen delivery
WINCAPS QUANTUM TAKES SUBTITLE PRODUCTION INTO A NEW ERA: September 2009: IBC: "With volumes being driven ever upwards, today?s subtitling facilities need to focus heavily on production cost while maintaining quality." WinCAPS Quantum combines the results of in-depth workflow analysis with a range of advanced tools that SysMedia has perfected over recent years.; WinCAPS Quantum productivity tools
WINCAPS COMPARE SAVES TIME FOR MULTILINGUAL SUBTITLING: September 2009: IBC 2009 sees the launch of WinCAPS Compare, a unique subtitle file comparison tool that makes it easy to check multiple language versions of a subtitling job for consistency, hitherto a time-consuming and expensive manual task. This new utility is likely to prove most popular with subtitle production facilities serving the multi-language DVD market.; WinCAPS Compare for multilingual subtitling operations
CHANNEL 4 PLAYOUT BY SCREEN SUBTITLING WITH SYSMEDIA'S ASSISTANCE: August 2009: Screen Subtitling, a SysMedia technology partner, has delivered its Polistream subtitle transmission system for the new Red Bee Media playout system for UK Channel 4. The system uses teletext inserter cards and PDC insertion technology provided by SysMedia.; Screen Subtitling for Channel 4 playout
SWEDISH CHAT SHOW FIRST TO BE SUBTITLED LIVE: June 2009: Svensk Medietext has used SysMedia's WinCAPS subtitling software to achieve a Swedish broadcasting milestone (and a global rarity) near real-time translation subtitles for a live entertainment show for Kanal 5.; Svensk Medietext use WinCAPS to subtitle live chat show, a Swedish first
MTV3 USES PLANET TO IMPROVE TELETEXT-ON-THE-WEB SERVICE: May 2009: MTV3 in Finland uses SysMedia's Planet software to replace its own teletext-to-web solution, so that real-time updates to its Tekstikanava website now occur within moments of the teletext page changing.; MTV3 Finland uses Planet for faster updates to teletext-on-the-web
ALAAN TV DEPLOYS NEWSWATCH INEWS-TO-WEB TOOL: CABSAT: March 2009: UAE-based satellite broadcaster, Alaan TV has become the first to deploy SysMedia's NewsWatch newsroom-to-web automation technology. "This customer wanted the easiest way to publish stories from its TV newsroom on to its website, helping to expand its audience reach and coverage."; Alaan TV uses NewsWatch
ICAREUS ANNOUNCED AS NEW TECHNOLOGY AND DISTRIBUTION PARTNER: February 2009: SysMedia has formed a multi-level strategic alliance with Icareus. The Helsinki based specialists in TV-centric interactive technologies with playout solutions across MHP, tru2way and DVB-H platforms, become technical partners for interactive digital TV and mobile TV. Icareus will also operate as a reseller for SysMedia's globally renowned WinCAPS subtitling products in Latin America through its sales offices in Montevideo (Uruguay) and Mexico City.; Icareus strategic alliance
THE MILL CHOOSES WINCAPS FOR NEW ADTEXT SUBTITLING SERVICE: February 2009: Premier post production facility The Mill has installed WinCAPS to facilitate its innovative AdText subtitling service. Miles Stormer, head of MCR at The Mill, London, said "There are other options,but this was deemed best-in-class."; The Mill chooses WinCAPS for AdText
BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER: November 2008: Gone are the days when certain programmes were designated 'too hard to subtitle', claims Andrew Lambourne in TVB Europe, explaining how technology can reduce the cost of subtitling everything on TV, live and recorded.; TVB Europe November 2008 p34-35
RED BEE MEDIA SELECTS AUTOTX FOR AUTOMATED LIVE SUBTITLING: 12 September 2008: AutoTX uses SysMedia's revolutionary Speech Follower technology in place of an operator to cue prepared subtitle text to air in time with the voice of the TV presenter. It is particularly cost effective for short scripted bulletins such as regional news or opts, saving broadcasters both time and money.; Red Bee Media AutoTX
BREAKING THE LANGUAGE BARRIER: IBC 2008: There is a powerful economic and cultural argument for doing more live subtitling contends Andrew Lambourne in IBC Daily. European accessibility legislation demands increasing levels of television subtitling; adding live subtitling can be more economic than many may think, even though this approach may seem more challenging at first.
MOBILE GOLD FOR CONTENT PUBLISHING TO HANDHELD DEVICES AND THE WEB: IBC 2008: The publishing of text, images and adverts to handheld devices is a growing sector, and the globally successful Plasma Gold has been extended to allow customers to deliver their digital information services to mobiles at the same time as to other platforms. Text, images, video clips and tabular information is manually created, or derived from data feeds, and then integrated with advertising. The output is delivered in such a way as to be formatted correctly for the different classes of mobile handset.; Mobile Gold - cross-platform output for mobile phones, websites and TV
INFILE FILE-BASED INSERTER IMPROVED TO HANDLE OPEN CAPTIONS: IBC 2008: The latest development means that the software can add full broadcast quality open-caption subtitles in any language to a digital media file as part of a software-only file-based workflow. This extends InFILE's capabilities to handle traditional burnt-in translation subtitles to the popular closed caption formats (teletext, Line 21 and DVB).; InFILE software inserter capabilities extended even further
NEW 2017 TEST SIGNAL GENERATOR FOR DVB DATA SERVICES: 4 June 2008: The 2017 provides a complete DVB output with video, audio and teletext test data that can fully verify teletext decoder compliance against industry benchmarks. The unit includes an internal reference video source and optional UHF/VHF multi-standard modulator so it can be connected directly to a set-top-box or TV under test.; New 2017 reference signal generator for DVB data services
VIVA ENTERTAINMENT BUYS WINCAPS VIA NEW MIDDLE EAST DISTRIBUTOR: 14 May 2008: MediaCast, SysMedia's new Dubai based distributor, secures their first sale with Viva Entertainment taking delivery of WinCAPS. Key factors in the choice of WinCAPS were its ability to import text files in various formats and to export completed subtitles to Final Cut Pro.; MediaCast sells WinCAPS to Dubai's Viva Entertainment
WINCAPS SAVES TIME FOR TV GELDERLAND: April 2008: TV Gelderland has purchased WinCAPS to subtitle its daily news and features. The use of live subtitling techniques with WinCAPS has allowed the Dutch regional broadcaster to deliver subtitles on its first news broadcast each evening, as well as each subsequent hourly repeat throughout the night.; TV Gelderland and WinCAPS
NEW SUBTITLE CAPTURE UNIT REDUCES REPEAT COSTS: January 2008: SysMedia launches a new product that reduces repeat costs by re-using previously transmitted subtitles. The CAPture product decodes teletext from a video stream (be it a live transmission or a tape from the archive) and converts the subtitle data into a standard STL file.; CAPture teletext-STL capture unit
RTÉ WINS AWARD FOR MOBILE PHONE TELETEXT SERVICE: December 2007: Irish public broadcaster RTÉ has won a prestigious Irish Internet Association award for its highly successful RTÉ Aertel Mobile Service. Powered by a new WAP output gateway module for the same SysMedia PLASMA system that drives the teletext service for its TV channels, the WAP-based service allows teletext pages to be viewed on a mobile phone.; Award winning RTÉ WAP teletext system for mobile phones
FRANCE 3 DEPLOYS SDR7 SUBTITLE TRANSCODERS: November 2007: France 3 has started to deploy SysMedia's SDR7 Teletext-DVB subtitle transcoder across its DTT network. The units fit easily into the existing broadcast infrastrcture and existing subtitle preparation and playout workflows while providing improved subtitle display for the viewer at very low bandwidth.; France 3 deploys SDR7 subtitle transcoders
ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY INNOVATION AWARD NOMINEE: October 2007: Judges of the prestigious Royal Television Society's Innovation Awards nominated SysMedia's Speech Follower technology in the Under the Bonnet category.
WINNER IABM AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE: IBC 2007: AutoScript and SysMedia are presented with an IABM Award for Excellence for the multi-language, self-scrolling Voice Plus teleprompter driven by SysMedia's Speech Follower engine.; IABM Award for Excellence - Autoscript/SysMedia
VTM START LIVE NEWS SUBTITLING: IBC 2007: Belgium's VTM starts using WinCAPS for live news subtitling services, interfaced to its iNews newsroom system and its Polistream subtitle transmission system. The sale is the first to result from the strategic alliance between SysMedia and Screen Subtitling Systems (makers of Polistream).; VTM News Subtitling
SYSMEDIA AND SCREEN SUBTITLING REACH SOLUTIONS PARTNER AGREEMENT: IBC 2007: SysMedia and Screen Subtitling Systems have signed a strategic agreement to recommend "best of breed" solutions for live subtitling (SysMedia) and multi-channel automated subtitle transmission (Screen).; SysMedia and Screen Subtitling
KNR INSTALLS SYSMEDIA TELETEXT AND SUBTITLING: August 2007: Greenland's state broadcaster choses SysMedia systems as part of its complete technical re-build.; KNR Greenland
RE-SPEAKING THE TRUTH: IBE Magazine, July 2007: Overcoming the challenges of subtitling live programmes using speech recognition; Re-Speaking The Truth
THE NEWS HOUR: ACAP INTERACTIVE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT FOR PBS: ATSC AGM, May 2007: Developing interactive applications for the PBS ACAP field trial using Plasma Gold; ACAP Application Development on PBS The NewsHour; Back to top