Subtitling & Localisation

ITV is the second largest broadcaster in the UK. With an exponential rise in the demand for quality subtitling, they asked Limecraft to help them streamlining its subtitling processes to increase operational efficiency.

Customer case

More about the ITV case

Automated Subtitling uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to convert audio into high quality subtitles. It saves you the time and cost of conventional subtitling, and you retain the intellectual property rights.

 

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Use Cases

Subtitling and localisation at the core of your Limecraft Production Workspaces

Intralingual Subtitling

Limecraft uses automatic speech recognition (ASR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), allowing you to create same-language subtitles at a fraction of the cost.

Localisation

Built-in machine translation services allow you to create multiple versions of the content at marginal cost.

The workflow

Subtitling and localisation services run in the cloud. After uploading your content, subtitles are available for review and post-editing in seconds.
Upload content in Limecraft Flow directly by drag and drop in the browser

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Upload your material

Upload one or more files using drag-and-drop. If you have any existing transcripts or subtitle files available, you can attach these to the item, which saves the initial transcription.

💡Uploading via the Adobe Panel
Limecraft offers embedded AI transcription services that can be used for text-based editing and subtitling

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Audio Transcription

Using Limecraft, you have access to built-in speech-to-text or automatic speech recognition (ASR) services that convert audio into timed text with over 99% accuracy, including punctuation and capitalisation. The result are presented in an editor, allowing you to review and post-edit the transcript before using it for further processing.

Depending on the quality of the audio, Limecraft's automated subtitling services save over 80% of the time.

Limecraft Flow turns audio into well formed captions or subtitles

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Spotting

Limecraft takes care of the spotting. Taking into account the rhythm of the edit, desired reading speed, pauses in the audio, etc. By using Natural Language Processing (NLP), subtitles are optimised for maximum readability. When finished, you can use the editor to further optimise the result.

💡 What are Spotting Rules?
Screenshot of Limecraft Flow used for localisation of content by adding translated subtitles

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Localisation

Based on an initial subtitle template, you can add more languages in the blink of an eye. The text from the master subtitle template is used to recreate a script, which is then processed by machine translation. The result of the translation is segmented using the original timing template.

Limecraft Flow seamlessly integrates 3rd party applications like facebook, adobe premiere, youtube, vimeo, and Avid Media Composer

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Export

When finished, you can export your subtitles in a wide range of available formats. Now also including the option to export video with burned-in Subtitles.

💡 Subtitle File Formats