Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has agreed a cope with Google Cloud to make use of the latter’s Vertex AI to generate captions for programming throughout quite a lot of platforms. WBD claims that its Caption AI system can considerably cut back manufacturing time and prices whereas enhancing the accuracy of captions for US-based viewers.
The tech shall be used for unscripted programming on the outset, which may embrace information, sports activities and actuality TV throughout the likes of Max, CNN and Discovery+. WBD claims the system can cut back the time it takes to create captions by as much as 80 % and captioning prices by as much as 50 %. There’ll nonetheless be a stage of human assessment for high quality assurance, and the corporate claims this method will assist refine and prepare Caption AI’s workflow to enhance it over time.
Nonetheless, captioning requires a number of talent, particularly for reside TV the place transcribers need to sustain with what’s being stated as precisely as doable. Unscripted programming additionally tends to incorporate a number of overlapping chatter and it is unclear simply how efficient AI shall be at transcribing that precisely. Nonetheless you slice it although, relying extra on AI-generated transcriptions will imply much less work for folks within the area.
It will be attention-grabbing to see whether or not WBD expands this tech to subtitles for scripted programming. Subtitling (one thing I admittedly used to do for a dwelling) is a talented artwork. Amongst different issues, it entails precisely capturing sound results, music cues and non-verbal utterances; correctly explaining idioms for localization functions; and ensuring subtitles are timed correctly. There is a ton of nuance concerned, and it could be tough for AI to get it proper.
It is hardly shocking that WBD is taking a look at Caption AI as a means to save cash. The corporate has been aggressively cutting costs (and attempting to bolster its revenue) because it shaped in 2022 with the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery.
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