Entries by Hannah Alcantara

Guide to adding captions to online courses and eLearning Videos

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Now, more than ever, online learning courses are a crucial component of school courses. After the COVID-19 pandemic, learning institutions have been challenged to make their courses and learning materials more accessible online should their students need to stay home instead of coming to the classroom. From university professors to elementary school teachers, everyone is […]

Have you evaluated your Master Control operations recently?

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Have you evaluated your Master Control operations recently? What’s going on… more problems than you need; can’t trust the system to be reliable; system aging out; need to find more efficient workflows or make it work with fewer people? You, more than anyone else, knows how important it is to trust your Master Control software […]

Captions vs. Subtitles

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What’s the difference between captions and subtitles? Many people confuse captions and subtitles. They both appear as text on a television, computer screen or mobile phone while a video is playing, and help individuals understand the speech better. So what is the actual difference between the two? The basic difference is captions are in the […]

The Importance of Workflow in Broadcast Media

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In the broadcast world the process necessary to take a program and broadcast it to viewers can be quite complicated. Lots of things can go wrong. Video tape is no longer used and has been replaced by digital video which, in the beginning made things more complicated for broadcasters. Things like video file format, audio, […]

A Brief History of ASR Technology

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A Brief History of ASR Technology Did you know that the first ASR Technology was invented in 1952? ASR stands for Automated Speech Recognition. This technology uses machines (computers) instead of humans to convert speech to text for captions, subtitles, transcripts and other documentation. One of the earliest projects that can be considered an ASR […]