Australian-based global online and television captioning company Ai-Media has released a closed-captioning solution for broadcasters using Facebook Live.
The new live video captioning service, claimed as a world first by Ai-Media, provides real-time captions for Facebook Live broadcasts.
Tony Abrahams, chief executive of Ai-Media, says the newly released solution has been designed with Facebook to provide access to “great live content on a truly global scale”.
“Over the past year, daily watch time for Facebook Live broadcasts has grown by more than 4x, and 1 in 5 Facebook videos is a Live broadcast.
{loadposition peter}“Ai-Media’s technology will allow publishers to incorporate captions in their live videos.”
Abrahams says Ai-Media’s “unique technology” allows people, public figures and Facebook Pages to share live video and add captions to their content, connecting instantly with their followers and friends on Facebook.
He says the Ai-Media technology for adding captions to Facebook Live broadcasts is based on a simple interface – users send their live stream directly to Ai-Media, who then add live captions to the stream and send it back to the user’s page.
The service purposefully incorporates a minor delay to the user’s live stream to allow the captions to appear in time with the audio track in easy-to-read caption blocks.
According to Abrahams, it’s not just deaf and hard-of-hearing people who are set to benefit – the addition of captions not only allows the message to be communicated silently, it also provides valuable metadata about the content of the video for search discovery.