Speechmatics and Red Bee Media to discuss subtitling perfection using Automatic Speech Recognition at IBC 2018

The presentation will explore whether it will ever be possible to achieve perfection when using Automatic Speech Recognition for subtitling.

We’re delighted to announce that Will Williams, Machine Learning Engineer at Speechmatics, will be presenting with our partner Red Bee Media’s Emerging Technology Lead in Access Services, Hewson Maxwell at the IABM Future Trends Theatre at IBC 2018 in Amsterdam.

Diving into the main three key challenges that we still face when deploying Automatic Speech Recognition for subtitling pre-recorded and live content. Will and Hewson will discuss uncommon vocabulary, punctuation and the use of specific dialects and explain why these challenges still remain and how they could be addressed in the future.

The presentation titled,

“Perfection – will it ever be possible using Automatic Speech Recognition for subtitling?”

will take place at 4.30pm on Monday 17th September at the IABM Future Trends Theatre.

Can’t make the presentation? Visit us at stand 8.E17 to try out our new Sounds feature using our live speech-to-text demo.