SKY NEWS to use Ericsson for captioning services

MUMBAI, INDIA: Ericsson will provide live captioning services for Australian News Channel (ANC)’s SKY NEWS LIVE and SKY NEWS BUSINESS available in 2.8 million subscribing homes.

The contract also includes captioning services for SKY NEWS’ in-flight news bulletins for airline Qantas. The captions will be delivered as live service.

Developed in-house, the enterprise-level, schedule-driven software uses speech recognition and stenography technologies to power Ericsson's live captioning services. It allows multiple captioners to prepare and deliver real-time services for clients while maximizing re-use of the caption data after it has been broadcast.

Thorsten Sauer, Head, Broadcast and Media Services, Ericsson, said: “As a leading news provider in Australia, it is important that SKY NEWS’ captioning services match the quality of its editorial output. Our live captioning platform allows us to do this, by delivering service and quality to both our client and their audiences.”

“For the first time, Ericsson’s captions will also be made available on an airline, ensuring that the latest news from SKY NEWS will be accessible to as many Qantas air passengers as possible the world over,” he added.