ENCO debuted the enCaption Sierra, the next generation of ENCO’s enCaption solution for automated conversion and delivery of captions in broadcast and AV environments. enCaption Sierra brings ENCO’s automated captioning technology together with an SDI captioning encoder to create an all-in-one solution for on-prem environments and containerized deployment options for cloud.

enCaption Sierra can be delivered on Windows or Linux operating systems and is managed and monitored from a web browser. enCaption Sierra’s modern GUI features a simple calendar scheduler and various configuration settings, including custom dictionaries, word models, filtering and bilingual language options.

Sierra’s integrated enTranslate module uses machine translation and grammatical structure analysis to deliver captions for up to 37 languages simultaneously. enCaption Sierra also leverages GPU processing for improved speaker change detection and the ability to recognize music, laughter, applause and crowd noise. Sierra is an excellent listener and reliably computes fast speech, strong accents and problematic audio quality to consistently deliver clean captions.