coralbay.tv releases coralCaption

Leeds, UK, 20th March, 2024 – Cloud playout specialist coralbay.tv Ltd today announced the release of a new live captioning product, coralCaption, in collaboration with broadcast services experts Red Bee Media.

coralCaption inserts captions into live transport streams from text generated automatically using AI tools or is entered by users reviewing the audio and video from an automatically generated proxy.

The first version supports Teletext and OP47 subtitles, but the intention is to add support for 608/708 Captioning and DVB bitmaps in future releases.

Peter Hajittofi, CEO of coralbay.tv commented “We are delighted to be working with Red Bee Media on this new product and we are hopeful that many broadcasters will be interested in the solution. coralCaption is built on our next-generation microservices platform that can be hosted in any public cloud or on-premises. We are excited to be working with Red Bee and look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with them”.

Tom Wootton, Head of Access Services at Red Bee Media, said “Our aim is to ensure customers can make all content accessible no matter how it’s being distributed. With their great reputation for innovation, coralbay.tv were the obvious choice for a scalable and fully virtualised caption encoding solution, perfect for streaming and end-to-end cloud workflows. coralCaption represents a significant leap in captioning technology. It works seamlessly with Red Bee’s fully automated captioning solutions in next-generation playout and streaming environments, to deliver accessibility for the next generation of viewing experiences”.

coralbay.tv will be exhibiting coralCaption at NAB, stand No SL4084.

About Coralbay.tv Ltd
Based in the United Kingdom, coralbay.tv offers next-generation real-time playout, workflow and media preparation solutions. All products are cloud-native and are a suite of microservices that are containerized using docker and deployed and orchestrated using Kubernetes. They are optimized to take advantage of the inherent elasticity, redundancy and flexibility that hosting in the cloud offers. Systems can be hosted in any public cloud as well as on-premises.

Media Contact Details
Gavin Smith, coralbay.tv
London, United Kingdom
+44 113 873 0002
gavin.smith@coralbay.tv