ENCO To Debut Its First Closed Caption Encoder At NAB New York

ENCO formally debuts its first closed caption encoder this week at NAB New York, advancing ENCO's leadership position as the broadcast industry's first company to build a native solution across the entire closed captioning workflow.

The homegrown DoCaption EN848 is now shipping and available separately or as part of ENCO's award-winning enCaption system, giving customers an immediate on-prem or cloud option for fast, automated conversion and delivery of captions and translations.

The EN848's availability provides broadcasters with the opportunity to deploy the system over the IP network, with connectivity to enCaption for cloud-based captioning services such as those offered by ENCO's partner VITAC. The EN848's dual connectivity options also allow broadcasters to deploy redundant captioning workflows with immediate failover from cloud to on-prem should the network temporarily go dark. ENCO will demonstrate the core functions and deployment options for the EN848 on Wednesday and Thursday at the Javits Centre, where ENCO exhibits at Booth 907.

The EN848's core function is to reliably insert closed captions coming from any source downstream in compliance with global captioning standards. Long the industry's leading voice for captioning software, the EN848 now positions ENCO directly upstream to bring the industry a truly native solution. ENCO has therefore paired the exceptional speed and accuracy of enCaption’s automated conversions with a reliable 1RU solution that keeps broadcasters in compliance as captions go live to air. The EN848 conforms to a broad range of closed captioning specifications, including the encoding and insertion of CEA-608/CEA-708, and Teletext/OP47 ancillary data for standardized and legacy communication protocols.

The EN848 is a direct result of ENCO's 2023 acquisition of DoCaption, a genuinely strategic move that brought DoCaption’s engineering talent and proven ancillary data technology in house. The now singular ENCO engineering team developed the EN848 in collaboration, emerging with a software-defined, FPGA-based ultra-low latency SDI captions encoder and inserter that can be powered by human or advanced speech recognition (ASR) sources both on-prem and in the cloud. For on-prem workflows, the EN848 offers a specially engineered server to process ASR sources from enCaption systems.

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