How Do You Handle Closed Captions in Your Streaming Workflow?

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Hey everyone,

We just rolled out some updates to Wowza Streaming Engine’s closed captioning support, making it easier to maintain styling, support multiple languages, and simplify workflows. If you’re curious, you can check out more details in this blog post, but I’d love to hear from you all directly!

  • What’s your process for ensuring captions display correctly across different players and devices?

  • Have you found any creative ways to enhance accessibility or styling for your audience?

  • When it comes to multi-language captions, what strategies or best practices have worked well for you?

Always interested to hear how you all are tackling this—drop your thoughts below!

—Jeff

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Hi Jeff.
Working with closed captions in Wowza is OK. Everything works.
In the past, we used this option with the satisfaction of our clients.
But I decided to write something else here. In the subject.
WSE has slightly fallen on the sidelines in relation to the video platform. Too bad.
WSE - The ideal tool would be a module that creates automatic captions - converting audio to text. It is possible.
A dozen or so months ago we exchanged correspondence with a programmer. It is doable. A month of work, or even less, and it’s done. The unfortunate cost for one project turned out to be too high.
I think that a company like Wowza has the ability to create such a module, without a problem.
Such a tool would allow for increasing sales of WSE licenses. Users would receive a great topic.

  • I have WSE - I have automatic captions - I can satisfy many new customers
    yes… I know… you can find something like that… but it is an external provider, such a solution does not fully satisfy us.
    We dream of WSE with complete automatic creation of closed captions.
    Regards.
  • sorry for my English
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Hi Dorota,

Thank you for the feedback! We are currently looking into some options for automated captioning, but it’s a bit more complex of a solution with our existing implementation. I’ll add this request to our feature from this end and make an announcement once we’re closer to timing this.

Jeff