EEG - The Captioning Solutions Company

Realtime IP Caption Link

A revolutionary Secure Realtime IP Captioning System, EEG’s iCap™ is providing broadcasters and post production facilities with the most efficient path to HD closed captioning.

iCap™ makes closed captioning easier and more intuitive than ever before. It goes far beyond what previous analog-based closed captioning platforms could do, instead tapping the power of IP connections to provide a host of important benefits to broadcast applications.

Once a broadcaster installs the versatile, 1RU HD490 Smart Encoder in their rack, and captioners download and install the iCap™ client onto their Windows PC, the system is in place.

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Highlights of iCap™ include:

Superior Quality Captioning With Lower Delay   – In order to achieve high accuracy closed captioning with a minimum of delay in respect to program audio, caption service providers must have access to high quality, low latency program audio. iCap’s IP audio delivery has 2x greater bandwidth than phone line audio couplers, greatly improving dialogue intelligibility. Additionally, iCap’s low audio latency can reduce the delay of captions by as much as 4 seconds as compared to the use of audio from a digitally compressed terrestrial or satellite program feed.

Improved Cost Efficiency   – with one Internet connection iCap™ eliminates the need for costly multiple phone lines and their associated usage charges, or even more expensive satellite equipment.

Enhanced Security   – key encryption protects audio and captions every step of the way. Unlike in the open modem system, a secure password is required for every access to an encoder. Additionally, both the broadcast encoder and the captioner can operate iCap™ from behind firewalls.

Robust Administrative Features   – iCap’s built-in administrative system allows broadcasters to monitor, manage and supervise the captioning process far more efficiently than ever before. Account management, password privileges, log-on and log-off, scheduling, communications, visual feedback for remote captioners, troubleshooting and much more is now available.

Universal Software Compatibility  – iCap™ works with existing captioning software on the captioner’s existing PC.