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What is CaptionHub on-premise? The first thing to point out is that unlike some consumer applications that also power businesses, like 1Password for example, an enterprise-first platform like CaptionHub isn’t a straightforward single-unit application. It’s a multi-faceted platform which makes it harder to deploy technically. Unlike a desktop application, CaptionHub is a browser served subtitling platform, its speech recognition engine, its machin...

CaptionHub’s built-in renderer offers the fastest and easiest way to create burnt-in subtitles, otherwise known as open captions. Just select the language you need in the Download tab, and click on the “Render” button. Once it’s done, click on the “Download render” button. That said, sometimes you need more control over look and feel; for instance, you might need to use a particular corporate font to format your subtitles with. It makes a lot of ...

Making good tools work together Businesses are exposed to an ever growing range of platform options that can improve how they do business. Speeding things up, improving quality, automating, evolving. As we increase the number of tools, the transactional overhead can become costly. More training, more authentication, security issues, and ultimately more time and cost to manage between systems. We wanted to work on bringing together internal system...

Edit Detection We’ve written earlier about the importance of frame accurate captions. On a human level, captions that don’t cross frame boundaries are significantly less jarring, they’re much easier to read. So there’s a moral imperative to do what you can to help people who may be hard of hearing, or people who might not be speaking the same language. There’s a practical consideration, too. Subtitles for broadcast, or for online film distributi...

When I’m explaining CaptionHub to people who haven’t spent their professional lives in broadcast video, I often have to pause. Some things about broadcast video, frankly, are just not that interesting. But just because something’s not terribly interesting doesn’t mean it’s not important. Take a video frame, for instance. Here in a Europe, there are generally 25 individual video frames that make up a single second of broadcast. (Our American cous...