EEG, the innovators in closed captioning, have announced the launch of their Falcon Web-Streaming Caption Encoder. A virtual caption encoder available through EEG Cloud Services, Falcon provides an efficient and cost-effective captioning solution to any content creator offering live online content.
With Falcon Streaming Caption Encoder, users will benefit from on-demand usage-pricing for sending live captions via EEG’s iCap™ Secure Realtime Captioning System directly to popular Web video hosting services. Falcon is compatible with YouTube Live Events, VideoLinq, UVault, and any system running Wowza Streaming Engine.
Falcon is ideal for applications including news, sporting events, e-learning classrooms, corporate webinars, government facilities, and more. Completely cloud-powered, Falcon allows live content producers to connect to transcriptionists through iCap and route captions straight to the web-video server, eliminating the need for a hardware closed caption encoder entirely. Through iCap, Falcon users may choose from a network of thousands of national, regional, and independent professional live captioners to meet their specific event requirements and budget.
Fast, Flexible, and Affordable
Falcon Caption Streaming makes captioning easier than ever for content creators who want to offer their streaming viewers the same experience they have come to expect from television. Created by EEG, the Emmy Award®-winning leaders in closed captioning, Falcon is an accessible approach to offering live closed captions for streaming media.
Available now for activation at eegcloud.tv, Falcon can be started with only minutes of notice prior to an event and shared with any live caption service provider who has an iCap account. Customers are billed at an affordable usage-based rate, with no fixed costs for hardware or software licensing.
“With more and more viewers turning from TV to online viewing to access live material, content providers are striving to provide a TV-quality experience on computers and portable devices,” says Bill McLaughlin, Vice President of Product Development for EEG. “In addition, existing TV regulations for closed captioning will inevitably extend to streaming media in the near future. Falcon is an accessible answer to these realities: Content providers, businesses, communities, and schools of all sizes can now easily deliver iCap-quality captions through their live streams efficiently and at reasonable cost.”