AppTek Delivers New Levels of Accuracy in Live Automated Closed Captioning Solution for Broadcasters
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MCLEAN, Va.--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- AppTek , a leader in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation, today announced unmatched closed captioning results delivered by its live closed captioning system, attained by CKSA-DT television of Lloydminster, which broadcasts to the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. AppTek achieved this result by using its unified neural network platform for machine translation and automated speech recognition to leverage features from each for noise adaptation, vocabulary normalization, punctuation prediction and speaker separation for functionally readable and understandable captions. CKSA Chief Engineer Raymond Greene said that “During evaluation and now implementation, we find AppTek’s AI-based platform to provide exceptional performance for closed captioning, both in speed and accuracy. The evaluation looked at multiple factors in an overall quality metric, including accuracy, punctuation, diarization and word omissions, and AppTek’s live closed captioning appliance was ranked the highest.” As a further enhancement to its neural network platform, AppTek will be releasing new industry-leading subtitling capabilities at this year’s NAB show in Las Vegas ( www.nabshow.com BOOTH: South Hall SL14917).
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