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#163 The Future of Live Multilingual Captioning Ai-Media CEO Tony Abrahams

April 28, 2023 Slator
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#163 The Future of Live Multilingual Captioning Ai-Media CEO Tony Abrahams
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Tony Abrahams, CEO and Co-founder of Ai-Media, joins SlatorPod to talk about the journey to building a market leader in multilingual live captioning.

Tony discusses his transition from working in finance to co-founding Ai-Media with Alex Jones and introducing large-scale captioning to Australian Pay TV. He gives an overview of Ai-Media’s technology stack, which delivers high-quality automatic captioning through three key elements: encoding, the iCap network, and LEXI.

The CEO talks about the use of respeaking versus LEXI in settings where captioning accuracy is critical, and where there are multiple speakers, mixed-quality audio, or background noise. He discusses how Ai-Media measures live-captioning quality using the NER model, which weights the types of errors as editing errors or recognition errors.

Touching on the multilingual component of Ai-Media, Tony explores the possibility of using AI instead of respeakers and having a fully-automated translation product in the near future. He believes that large language models are an opportunity as the technology has enabled them to interpret sentences more accurately, resulting in a better outcome with LEXI 3.0.

Tony gives his thoughts on growing through M&A and the strategy behind acquiring EEG to gain a competitive advantage in terms of its technology and product suite. He shares his rationale for taking AI-Media public.

The CEO reveals Ai-Media’s roadmap for 2023, such as improving the iCap network and launching the LEXI Library, which allows customers to search their media library by captions.

Intro and Agenda
Background and Route into Language Access
When to Use Respeaking
Ai-Media's Tech Platform
Enterprise vs. Consumer SaaS
Thoughts on Whisper Launch
Setting Quality KPIs
Multilingual Captioning
Experience with ChatGPT
Scaling Through M&A
Pros and Cons of Being a Listed LSP
Roadmap for 2023
Future Market Demand
Ai-Media's Partners