Red Bee Media is providing live closed captions on IBC TV throughout IBC 2019 in Amsterdam, ensuring full accessibility of all content being broadcast and streamed from the show. With a plug-and-play cloud platform for remote delivery, Red Bee will deliver the captions from its English Language Hubs, directly to the screens at IBC. This solution, including live webcam feeds of the captions being produced, will be showcased together with other innovative Access Services, on the Red Bee stand 14.D26 in Hall 14 – Content Everywhere.

“Red Bee is able to deliver high-quality captioning from any location, to anywhere in the world using our global, cloud-based captioning platform and we are excited to get the opportunity to show the power of this service live at the world’s most influential media tradeshow”, says Tom Wootton, Head of Product, Red Bee Media

During IBC 2019, visitors will be able to get a behind-the-scenes look of how the captions are produced for IBC TV through real-time webcam feeds on the Red Bee stand. In addition to this, Red Bee will be showing innovations in Automatic Realtime Captioning with ASR as well as Audio Description Services.

Red Bee Media will be exhibiting at IBC 2019 at the RAI Convention Center, in Amsterdam in Hall 14 – Content Everywhere on stand 14.D26.

Yearly output from Red Bee’s seven global Access Services hubs:

  • 200 000 hours of captioning globally
  • 70 000 hours live captioning
  • 2 500 hours/year of translation and subtitling
  • 6 000+ hours/year of audio description.