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06/07/2022

ENCO Acquires Vox Frontera's TranslateTV And Sentinel Solutions

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ENCO has expanded its portfolio of captioning and translation solutions with the acquisition of Vox Frontera's TranslateTV (TTV) and Sentinel solutions.

The TTV acquisition provides ENCO with a broader reach into the growing multi-generational Hispanic television market inside the US and abroad by offering broadcasters an on-premises option for advanced translation of live Spanish-language TV captioning, with plans to develop a global solution specific to AV applications. Sentinel supports cost-effective, real-time quality monitoring solution for automated captions – an especially valuable solution to keep broadcasters compliant with FCC closed-captioning standards related to accuracy, synchronization, and completeness.

TTV uses patented software to translate English closed captions into Spanish in real-time. While ENCO offers Spanish translation today within its flagship, automated enTranslate service – along with 45 other languages – enTranslate today only supports cloud-based processing for translation. Offering a fully on-premises captioning and translation system enables new business opportunities with customers that prefer to host their own systems and remain independent of the cloud.

ENCO will leverage the same technology to develop an on-premises Spanish-language translation and captioning solution for financial institutions, corporations, government bodies and universities that restrict access to sensitive information. TTV’s open development platform will also allow ENCO engineers to make continuous speed and accuracy improvements, and add new languages moving forward for both broadcast and AV customers.

According to ENCO President Ken Frommert, ENCO will augment the possibilities of TTV technology in both broadcast and AV environments through native integration with ENCO’s enCaption automated captioning workflow. That proven technology workflow will also pave the way for open captioning of meetings, classes, worship services and other AV-related events.

"We look forward to supporting TTV's legacy customers and bringing them into the ENCO family," said Frommert. "Integrated with our enCaption automated captioning and transcription solution, we will enable this technology to natively accept live and prerecorded audio feeds and automatically convert them to text. Our same workflow will inject these translations onto multiple consumer platforms, presenting live, accurate captions on TV sets, desktop, laptops, and mobile devices. We will develop and innovate the TTV platform for new applications and use cases, while bringing 24/7 product and technical support to the existing TTV client base."

Frommert added that with Sentinel, ENCO's broadcast customers "can monitor and evaluate caption quality from ingest to transmission, while cleaning up inaccuracies, improving timeliness and providing documentation in response to FCC complaints".

ENCO's cloud-based enTranslate is available today as a plug-in to enCaption automated captioning and translation systems. Frommert expects to adapt a similar approach to TTV to ensure that customers who elect for an on-premises version similarly have a complete, reliable and well-integrated captioning and translation solution. All ENCO enCaption solutions leverage A.I. based deep learning and speech recognition algorithms to deliver the most accurate and consistent live captions and translations in broadcast and AV.

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