ANC, Australia's 24-hour multi-channel, multi-platform news service provider, has signed a multi-year news captioning contract with Ericsson.
Ericsson will provide live captioning services for Sky News Live and Sky News Business, which are broadcast to 2.8 million subscribing homes across Australia on subscription television provider Foxtel.
As part of the contract, Ericsson will also provide captioning services for Sky News-produced bulletins on Qantas flights. The captions will be delivered as an as-live service to ensure the news is as current and up-to-date as possible.
"It is important that Sky News' captioning services match the quality of its editorial output,” said Thorsten Sauer, head of broadcast and media services at Ericsson. “Our live captioning platform allows us to do this, by delivering the highest levels of service and quality to both our client and their audiences.”
Ericsson's real-time platform supports live captioning in various languages for broadcasters around the world by using speech-to-text, newsroom integration and rapid offline content preparation.
The enterprise-level, schedule-driven software platform, which was developed in-house, uses the best possible speech recognition and stenography technologies to power Ericsson's live captioning services.
It allows multiple captioners to prepare and deliver real-time services for clients while maximizing re-use of the caption data after it has been broadcast—for example, by helping to power content discovery and enrich archive search.