Teaming up with dialogue analysis technology company Nexidia on a line it is callin Swift ReSync, it is promising to dramatically increase output and reduce costs for subtitle and caption timing with productivity gains of 40 to 90 per cent.

Swift ReSync TiGo automates the timing of new subtitles and captions as they are created, while Swift ReSync Enterprise automates the re-timing of existing subtitle and caption files to match newly edited programmes, ready for automated re-airing.

Adding Swift ReSync TiGo to the Swift Create workstation frees operators from the time-consuming and sometimes error-prone task of manually setting the timing for each new subtitle and caption.

Using Nexidia dialogue analysis and Softel algorithms, Swift Create instantly and precisely assigns time codes to subtitles and captions automatically. This is achieved by taking account of recorded speech, shot change information, reading speed calculations and other considerations to free subtitler/captioner time. Crucially, the systems offer support for multiple languages including Arabic (modern standard), Dutch, English (North American, Australian and UK), French (European), German, Italian, and Spanish (Castilian and Latin American).

With the explosion of broadcasting and new media platforms, and regulations requiring new media to be subtitled or captioned, broadcasters are facing an enormous need to generate subtitled and captioned media quickly and affordably.

Swift ReSync Enterprise is a back-office server-based system which automates batch re-timing of existing subtitle and caption files to match videos that have been edited for re-broadcast or re-distribution. It promises broadcasters and postproduction houses the ability to subtitle and caption more content for more viewers at a far lower cost.

Swift ReSync TiGo and Swift ReSync Enterprise supplement the existing Softel Swift product line for the creation, encoding, transcoding, insertion and transmission of captions and subtitles. The Swift ReSync family enhances the Swift Create workstation and Swift back-office to deliver the efficiency, reliability and cost savings that next-generation broadcasting will rely on.

‘We know that broadcasters and subtitle/caption houses are tasked with an ever growing list of requirements, and a need to streamline their processes to allow for an ever greater throughput, to a wide array of platforms.’ says Sam Pemberton, Softel Chief Executive Officer. ‘With Swift ReSync, Softel’s technical teams have enabled a quantum leap in productivity for our customers, thereby allowing the expanding list of both traditional and new media content to benefit quality subtitles and captions. By partnering with Nexidia, and combining their well regarded dialogue analysis systems with Softel’s proprietary technologies, we are providing solutions that not only have a tremendous return on investment for our customers, but which are accurate, reliable and serve the global multi-platform media market. This is the most significant breakthrough in the sector for more than a decade.’

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