Novi, MI, January 27, 2026 – ENCO takes its award-winning captioning, subtitling andtranslation solutions into new territory with Raptor, a cloud-based encoderwith quick-deploy capabilities built for live AV andbroadcast events. ISE 2026 marks Raptor’s AV industry debut following previewsat IBC and NAB New York, adding a powerful new option alongside ENCO’smarket-leading enCaption and enTranslate solutions. ENCO will show the latestfeatures and improvements for all three brands at Stand EA780.
Raptor’spure software infrastructure offers a simple,straightforward and immediate way to embed captions and subtitles into a liveprogram stream that originates from any location. Hosted by longtime ENCOpartner StreamGuys, Raptorintroduces a secure and reliable live streaming captioning service to eventproducers seeking to bring government, education, broadcast, and live sports,corporate and worship events and more totelevision or streaming platforms.
“Raptor was introduced to take live content from any broadcast,AV, or hybrid source, embed captions, and send that content back outin real time,” said Ken Frommert, President, ENCO. “This is an essential needfor cloud-based and decentralized workflows, which are now the norm for manylive event producers. As hosted on the StreamGuys infrastructure with nophysical encoder to maintain, customers have an agile solution that is quick to configure with theability to inject captions at nearly any stage.”
Many AV environments also prefer or even require on-prem solutionsfor generating captions,subtitles and time-stamped transcripts, which is offered throughout ENCO’sproduct line. Also deployable in cloud or hybrid form, enCaption combines machinelearning with advanced speech-to-text conversion and grammatical structureanalysis to deliver exceptional accuracy with extremely low latency. Pairedwith enTranslate, the complete solution provides a seamless and interoperablesolution for serving diverse audiences inside classrooms, courtrooms,meeting spaces and live staged events.
ISE audiences will gettheir first look at ENCO’s powerful AI-driven voice fingerprinting technology, which breaks new ground in speakeridentification. The technology introduces a novel function to thecaptioning and translation workflow through a single-stream audio mix thatdynamically identifies each speaker.
“Acrossour entire award-winning portfolio, ENCO continues to accentuate accessibility,clear comprehension and language support as corecomponents of modern AV, broadcast and live content production,” addedFrommert. ISE 2026 runs February 3-6 at the Fira de Barcelona in Spain.
About ENCO
Founded in 1983, ENCO pioneered the useof computer-based, digital audio and program automation for radio stations andTV studios. The company has since evolved its award-winning product line tospan all aspects of today’s automated broadcast and production workflows,including closed and open captioning, automated live translation, AI productiontoolsets, live virtual production, visual radio, audio compliance, instantmedia playout, remote contribution, and cloud-based web streaming. It alsobrings the benefits of its patented captioning and live audio/video playoutinnovations to professional AV environments including conference rooms, lecturehalls, sporting arenas and event venues. For more information, please visit: www.enco.com.
