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NAB Show Exhibitor Insight—ENCO

President Ken Frommert says the “media and entertainment industry has now embraced AI to improve business operations and workflows as the technology has matured.”

April 25, 2024
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ENCO DAD Automation Simplifies Broadcast Media Workflow at Seacrest Studios

Ryan Seacrest Foundation standardizes with ENCO across all 14 Seacrest Studios locations, including the recently opened Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens

November 6, 2023
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ENCO Partners with Benztown and Yamanair Creative, a Division of Compass Media Networks for AI Ad Spec Creation and Sales

The companies will work together to bring ENCO’s SpecAI solution to the broader North American radio market, helping affiliates create spec spots on-demand, reducing cost and accelerating time to air

October 24, 2023
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ENCO Adds Keith Lucas to Global Sales Team

Experienced broadcast industry professional brings more than 20 years of sales and business development in captioning and AI to EMEA and North American operations

August 2, 2023
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ENCO Acquires DoCaption

Acquisition expands ENCO’s reach across broader captioning workflows, adds encoding, signal conversion, monitoring and other capabilities through a range of ancillary data solutions

July 24, 2023
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ENCO Earns Two Prestigious Best of Show Awards at ISE 2023

ENCO enCaption5 receives Sound & Video Contractor’s Best of Show Award and ENCO RUSHWORKS PTX Model 3 PRO is named Best of Show by AV Technology

February 13, 2023
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ENCO Brings Live Captioning Innovations and Rapid Content Automation for Live Events to ISE 2023

Exhibiting at ISE for the first time, ENCO will showcase its cloud-native enCaption5 captioning software and ClipFire rapid content automation system for a variety of Pro AV environments.

January 17, 2023
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ENCO Acquires RUSHWORKS

ENCO will retain the RUSHWORKS product line and staff, providing a broader range of integrated hardware and software solutions for broadcast and AV customers worldwide

January 3, 2023
Blog Posts

Broadcast Captioning in the UK

When you google broadcast captioning mandates in the U.S., you’re immediately directed to the FCC website where you get tons of information detailing the closed captioning rules and requirements that U.S. broadcasters must follow for both over-the-air and streamed programming. If they fail to comply, there are repercussions, such as penalties and fines.

November 2, 2022
Blog Posts

When Only On-Premises-based Translation Will Do

Real-time captioning has become pervasive as digital content creators strive to make their videos accessible to all, especially the deaf and hard of hearing. While captioning used to be the bailiwick of broadcast TV, it’s now widely available on today’s media fare, including video podcasts, educational videos, and all types of entertainment.

August 29, 2022
Blog Posts

Now You're Talking!

This big old world is getting smaller. Social media now streams into every part of the internet universe. And a big part of the online content swirling around us is video. Video attracts viewers and keeps them engaged like no other medium.

August 24, 2022
Press Releases

ENCO Captures Spanish Translation Market with Strategic Acquisition of TranslateTV

ENCO acquires an on-premises English-to-Spanish translation system for broadcast and AV environments, and an automated caption quality monitoring solution.

July 6, 2022
Blog Posts

What’s the Difference between Captioning and Transcribing?

While captioning and transcribing videos both involve converting the spoken word into text, the real difference lies in the way they are used. In the case of open and/or closed captioning, the mission is for broadcasters and podcasters to provide on-screen text that displays in sync with the spoken word. In this way, deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers, or those watching with the sound down or off, can follow along.

July 13, 2022
Blog Posts

How TV Captioning Came to Be

Some 48 million Americans suffer from some degree of hearing loss, according to the Hearing Loss Association of America. While broadcast TV captioning was invented with the deaf and hard of hearing in mind, today this service is readily available and beneficial to all.

June 30, 2022
New Feature Showcase

Speechmatics partners with ENCO to unlock accurate captioning of every voice for content producers and AV professionals

Deep learning-powered speech-to-text engine powers Automated AV Captioning and Transcription for ENCO’s enCaption5

June 6, 2022
Blog Posts

Captioning Here, There, Everywhere

While closed captioning began as a way for the deaf and hard of hearing to understand the audio portion of TV shows, its use has now become quite pervasive.

May 18, 2022
Blog Posts

Captioning Never Goes Out of Style

Captioning is interwoven into our television, and increasingly, streaming culture. Viewers expect it, and the deaf and hard of hearing depend upon it. In this blog, we’ll look at how government mandates have impacted broadcasting, both over-the-air (OTA) and over the top (OTT).

May 4, 2022
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ENCO Previewing Major Next-Gen Automated Captioning Advances at 2022 NAB Show

Company will provide a first look at cloud-native enCaption5 alongside demonstrations of ongoing enhancements to award-winning enCaption4

April 18, 2022
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ENCO to Preview Next-Generation Remote Radio Automation Interface at 2022 NAB Show

New WebDAD 3.0 provides enhanced user experiences while letting stations efficiently manage their on-air operations from anywhere with a network connection.

April 7, 2022
Blog Posts

Keeping Pace with Live Sports by Automating Captioning

Since few TV shows have the allure and draw of live major league sports, broadcasters consider it worthwhile to pay large sums of money to obtain the exclusive rights to carry major league sporting events.

March 16, 2022
Blog Posts

ENCO’s Patrick Mahon Returns from Plum Tokyo Assignment

Our Television Broadcast Engineer Patrick Mahon just returned from the summer games in Tokyo where he served as a transport signal quality control engineer at the technical operations center (TOC) at Odaiba Marine Park from July 9 to August 7, 2021. This Tokyo venue hosted various competitive sporting events, including aquatics marathon swimming, and triathlon.

December 30, 2021
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ENCO Appoints Shane Finch as Sales Director for Broadcast and Pro AV Products

Long-time radio professional will emphasize remote broadcasting solutions and “evangelize” benefits of ENCO’s automated workflow solutions for new markets, including open captioning in AV environments

June 22, 2020