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www.inbroadcast.com | IBC2017 InShow Guide | 15-19 September

Tackling Content Pirates on
the Open Seas of the Internet
Pirated content has been around for decades - but gone are the days of illegallyproduced VHS tapes and DVDs hawked on street corners...

he advent of streaming
media has made piracy
easier and cheaper for content
thieves. But as technology
continues to advance, the stakes
have risen.
According to the Alliance for
Creativity and Entertainment (ACE),
the global coalition dedicated to
protecting the legal market for
content and reducing online piracy,
last year, an estimated 5.4 billion
pirated films and television shows
worldwide were downloaded. ACE's
members should know because
they include the world's leading
content creators and on-demand
entertainment companies including
Amazon, BBC Worldwide, HBO, MGM,
Netflix, The Walt Disney Company and
Warner Bros. Entertainment.
The fight to combat
this piracy requires
techniques that work

alongside modern internet-based
content delivery systems. TV CDN
provider Edgeware has integrated
advanced
stream-based
forensic
watermarking into its TV-optimised
content delivery infrastructure. This
allows content owners to implement
the most efficient and technically
robust anti-piracy solutions to make
it more difficult for thieves to hide
and allows the content owner to
identify sources of illegally shared
programming streams.
Currently, a content distributor's
typical anti-piracy measures involve
creating two copies of each threesecond section of a programme. These
are then strung together to create a

may be altered, is added and
included as special metadata,
sent in-band with the content.
The second part of the process
manipulates the blocks within
Bitstream-based watermarking the actual bitstream to create
unique code during distribution. But
a unique code that correlates to
this means networks must store and every streamed version of the video.
distribute twice as much content, and This process works for both IPTV and
pirates can easily hide the watermark OTT services, even in 4K resolution or
by re-ordering two different versions formats like VR.
of a programme.
By using Edgware's TV CDN with
Edgeware's stream-based solution built-in watermarking technology,
embeds a unique code directly into operators and content owners can
the video's image. It slightly modifies protect their highly valuable content
some of the frames' pixels in a way from piracy, and have the forensic
that's unnoticeable to the viewer. For tools to quickly track down offenders
example, it might change a black to a when content is stolen. This ability to
very dark grey.
trace pirates is critical as it acts as an
The first part of the process profiles additional deterrent.
and identifies candidate blocks that
Now it's content thieves, not content
can be manipulated without degrading owners, who need to worry about
or effecting the picture. The identity piracy.
of these candidates, and how they
www.edgeware.tv

Speech Recognition Technology
for TV Broadcast

the potential of these innovative
technologies and how they can
make the difference in a production
workflow, by saving costs to TV
VoiceInteraction is showing its automatic subtitling system
stations and still meet the legal
and the broadcast edition of its media monitoring system...
regulations in terms of subtitling
peech recognition technology and flow. For post-production, phonetic transcriptions, to adapt accuracy," said VoiceInteraction's CEO
company VoiceInteraction is AUDIMUS.MEDIA enables export of models to local language.
João Neto.
showing the fifth generation of its a subtitle file with timecodes. This
"In the last few years, there was
VoiceInteraction will also bring its
automatic subtitling system for eliminates the need to synchronise an increase in demand for subtitling media monitoring solution - the MMS
live shows and breaking news, and the captions with the video and the solutions in Europe, but the question Broadcast Edition - an integrated
the broadcast edition of its media latency time, as the transcripts are frequently raised by TV broadcasters broadcast
monitoring
solution
monitoring system at IBC.
already fully in line with the video.
relates to the accuracy levels that with video recording, storage and
Automatic
subtitling
software,
The set of different language models these solutions reach. We believe retrieval,
comprising
real-time
AUDIMUS.MEDIA, was built on - British English, American English, that in a near future, TV Stations tools for automatic transcription,
VoiceInteraction's
own
speech French, German, Spanish (European will migrate to automatic caption segmentation and topic indexing of
processing technology. It combines and Latin America), Portuguese workflows. IBC is a great place for TV contents. The solution comprises a
advanced signal processing, speech (European and Brazilian), Italian - with VoiceInteraction to demonstrate wide set of features: legal recording
recognition with a vast vocabulary, specific themes each, such as
for auditing and compliance,
and
segmentation
techniques, news, sports or entertainment,
long-term storage of broadcast
enabling high precision subtitling makes AUDIMUS.MEDIA very
programming,
monitoring
(≥95%) at low latency times for flexible and suitable for a
and competitive analysis of
more accurate subtitles during live spectrum of organisations
rival
channel
programming,
programmes. It is the ideal solution in several countries. These
advertisement
identification,
for live TV shows and live streaming language models are trained
loudness monitoring, SEO tags'
channels. In addition to transcribing with substantial amounts of
generation, content reviewing and
what is said at each moment, audio and text, where the total
repurposing based on keywords,
AUDIMUS.MEDIA can identify speakers volume of vocabulary exceeds
audio, TV graphics or captions.
and detect speaker transitions, 200,000 words. The technology
Visit us on stand: 14.H18
VoiceInteraction is showing its fifth
increasing the subtitles' readability enables the adjustment of the
generation of AUDIMUS.MEDIA www.voiceinteraction.tv

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