Ai-Media scores over 99% in first external captioning quality audit
Speech-to-text innovator Ai-Media has released the results of its first independent external captioning quality audit.
The announcement:
Speech-to-text innovator Ai-Media today released the results of its first independent external captioning quality audit, achieving a score of 99.13% measured by the international NER benchmark.
I’m just wondering how they captioned Christopher Pyne’s little outburst in Parliament yesterday.
That’s funny. They must not of caught the program where they wrote c**t instead of cousin, referred to someone as having AIDS, when they were actually 8th, the fact that there is text on screen that isn’t in the actual audio track (and I mean a lot of it), the fact that some grabs don’t have any captions at all, I was watching the weather and still reading captions from a story two previous stories in the queue before the weather, the fact that one of their daytime bulletins was virtually incomprehensible the whole way through, and the list goes on…
By the way, their independent auditor is their consultant, on their payroll, and Channel 9s! And NER has not, and most definitely IS NOT recognised as an acceptable measuring tool, neither domestically or internationally, by any reputable provider or government, and is just another ‘option’ that has been put out there by another interested party. Ai-Media decided to just ‘take it up’ because they’re all about the spin.
Anonymous … we had junior staff on that night. Some weird looking bloke by the name of Christopher. He’s undergoing further training but we don’t think he’ll make the grade.
Hi Steve. Thanks for replying. While what you’ve said may explain one night, it certainly doesn’t explain all the issues I had described. Not to mention the fact that you had junior staff on air! Oh, and it’s good to see that you publicly put down your staff and call them “weird looking”. That’s professional…
‘Steve’ is not a member of Ai-Media’s staff, nor do the comments reflect the position of Ai-Media.