Laying the foundations for subtitling to new media platforms
The development of the “TV Anywhere” market throws yet another set of challenges into the path of the broadcaster trying to stay ahead in such a rapidly evolving industry. This article explains what needs to be considered to ensure that subtitles are efficiently delivered over multi-platforms.

Captioning’s Future
Softel Presidents of the Americas, Ed Humphrey reviews the latest advancements in closed captioning  and subitling technologies and explains why captions and subtitles provides an economical means to allow broadcasters and content providers to reuse and resell their assets.

Captioning and Subtitling in File-based Workflows
This guide explains how to perform the creation, encoding and transcoding of subtitles and captions as well as how to transmit and repurpose them. It provides real-life case studies from The Mill and Turner.

Services for Impaired and Disabled Users
This article was first published in Cable and Satellite International magazine in September 2010 and discusses the role technology plays in making broadcast content accessible to all. It outlines the range of services – such as subtitling and audio-description – currently available.

Multilingual Subtitle Creation
This article was first published in Broadcast Engineering magazine in February 2010 and explains how a hybrid approach to subtitle creation and processing delivers efficient workflows.

Subtitling and Captioning Challenges in Modern Workflows
This paper focuses on captioning and subtitling, though many of the techniques employed to enable these technologies are applicable to other forms of ancillary data too. It explores the various ways to efficiently process subtitles and captions in today’s multi-channel, multi-format, and multi-platform workflows.