Omny Studio launches transcription tool for audio and podcast publishers
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Melbourne VIC, Australia—Omny Studio (https://www.omnystudio.com/learn), creators of the leading on demand audio publishing platform for broadcasters and enterprise podcasters, announced today the addition of speech-to-text functionality to their platform - enabling radio stations and podcasters to transcribe their audio content.
“The automated transcription of audio is an important enabler to growing its discoverability,” said Chris Johnson, Head of Digital Product & Innovation at Southern Cross Austereo, “Omny’s latest transcription capability will not only assist with audio production, but will help optimise audio for search engines, social media and AI platforms.”
Leveraging Amazon Transcribe and the Speechmatics’ advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines, publishers using Omny Studio can now transcribe their audio with 29 different language options. The languages include American, British and Australian English as well as Spanish, Danish and French, amongst others. The transcription can then be edited in Omny Studio and exported into industry standard subtitle formats WebVTT and SRT.
“We’re committed to ensuring that we arm our clients with the tools they need to excel in the on-demand audio space,” said Sharon Taylor, CEO of Omny Studio. “In the first release of this feature, on top of repurposing interviews and breaking news for written articles, radio producers will be able to search through our on-air archive for specific topics or keywords.”
In an upcoming upgrade scheduled for later this year, transcriptions will be incorporated into Omny’s embed players and stand-alone web player so listeners can quickly search and seek to specific moments or keywords. The next version of Omny Studio’s audiogram tools will also integrate word-by-word subtitles to further enhance sharing audio on social media.
The ability to transcribe audio is now live and available today, for all Omny Studio clients around the globe.
About Omny Studio
Omny Studio is the most advanced audio-on-demand platform born out of radio and built specifically for professional audio publishers. Omny Studio’s tool-suite allows radio stations to capture recordings, build an annotated archive of everything that went to air, publish to every consumer platform, connect Podcasts and other clips to mobile apps and websites as well as monetize digital content.
About Southern Cross Austereo
SCA is Australia’s biggest entertainment company with the ability to reach more than 95% of the Australian population through its radio, television and digital assets. Led by the Triple M and Hit Networks, SCA owns 78 radio stations plus an additional 7 digital radio stations across metropolitan and regional Australia, and represents an additional 34 regional radio stations.
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