47 FEED:SHOW Business News
TIGHTROPE/ENCO enco.com / trms.com
AUTOMATING CAPTIONS Developers of the Cablecast Community Media automation platform, Tightrope Media Systems, has announced a new partnership with ENCO Systems. The partnership aims to create tailored configurations of ENCO’s enCaption automated captioning solution. “The Cablecast platform already preserves existing closed captions in live and file-based content, but the captions themselves must be created externally,” said Steve Israelsky, president of Cablecast Community Media. “By partnering with ENCO to offer this proven combination, we can save community media centres the time and effort of separately researching, purchasing and implementing a captioning solution,” he explained.
QLIGENT qligent.com
Building on ENCO’s patented automated captioning approach, enCaption combined machine learning with a neural network speech-to-text engine to deliver with low latency. EnCaption can learn the names of community leaders, council members and local landmarks to further enhance its word recognition and spelling precision. This is while multispeaker distinction functionality leverages AI to detect changers between speakers within a mixed feed – ideal for captioning single- camera coverage of government meetings.
INTELLIGENT LEADERS Qligent has announced that media technology veteran Brick Eksten has joined as its new CEO.
This is significant to the media technology world, as Eksten has a rich history of leading innovative companies that helped the world’s top media enterprises leverage disruptive technologies to increase efficiency, profitability and audience share. He joins Qligent from Imagine Communications, where he most recently served as CTO of playout and networking solutions and oversaw its road map for transitioning customers’ broadcast operations to the cloud. When he was CEO of Digital Rapids, he grew the company from a four-person start-up to a respected market leader – culminating in its acquisition by Imagine in 2014. “With proven large-scale deployments, deep expertise and managed services experience, Qligent is well-positioned to help customers deliver better service to their consumers, while freeing them to focus on their content. I’m excited by the opportunity to help Qligent build further on its success,” said Eksten. Preintegration with Yospace will deliver ads to Nordija’s customers across multiple devices and platforms. Commercial director of Yospace ads, Ed New, said: “I am delighted to work together with Nordija on the project for Telenor Sweden, which is launching a new TV and media platform. Enabling ad insertion across its live channels allows advertising across live streams and on-demand content to be curated to the interests of the individual viewer.”
LIVESCORE/STREAMAMG livescore.com / streamamg.com
FUTURE-PROOF PARTNERSHIP A partnership has recently been announced between sports OTT specialists StreamAMG and LiveScore, a sports score app. This partnership hopes to enable fans to enjoy live matches and on-demand content from major clubs and media outlets on the service, which ultimately hopes to achieve a major new sports streaming platform. With LiveScore’s global audience claiming to be over 56 million active users, the app covers hundreds of leagues and competitions across five
major sports. This partnership aims to produce a future-proof video service, integrated into the app and website. Head of LiveScore TV, Rob Brown, said: “StreamAMG’s extensive experience in sports streaming technology and our shared ambition for video innovation make them a perfect fit for LiveScore.” LiveScore’s OTT service will make full use of the CloudMatrix automated content distribution platform and specialist sports fixture system, as well as the core MediaPlatform OVP to orchestrate live and on-demand video delivery.
YOSPACE/NORDIJA nordija.com / yospace.com
INTEGRATING ADS UK-based dynamic ad insertion (DAI) solution provider Yospace has finalised its integration with Scandinavia-based IPTV and OTT middleware provider Nordija. “With increased demand from our customers, we have been looking for a flexible ad insertion tool to be deployed with our platform,” said Peter Røder Kristensen, vice-president of product management at Nordija.
Yospace’s server-side dynamic ad insertion technology can be applied for both live and VOD streams.
feedzinesocial feedmagazine.tv
Powered by FlippingBook