Broadcast Solutions

Channels such as BBC News, CNN, Sky News and many others have identified the need to be able to deliver real-time news coverage as stories break. The need for journalists to be kept abreast of breaking news and have access to background stories is just one of the ways in which we see the importance of knowing what appropriate and related information assets are available. VS Broadcast Monitoring is a next-generation technology to automatically monitor, analyze and index live broadcast feeds in real-time from digital, satellite and cable television, radio, and the Internet. This solution additionally supports real-time operations by creating automatic hyperlinks to other relevant content and delivering it automatically to those who need it, in real-time, wherever they are.

Furthermore, broadcast monitoring agencies also need to be able to track stories as they develop across a multitude of channels, frequently across multiple countries, and therefore in different languages and dialects. Autonomy Virage ensures users from any organization can keep ahead of the game and automatically monitor multiple broadcast streams to give instant visibility to breaking stories, to track competitors, and to monitor company news coverage in any format and any language.

Autonomy’s software analyzes “units of words” and not just characters, so it even works with double byte languages. It supports over 100 languages, including English, German, French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese, and can be easily configured to auto-detect the language of incoming feeds. Scalability is also a major challenge for other vendors in this type of environment. Being able to automatically index, process, and archive hundreds of live feeds and alerts when necessary is common practice for Autonomy Virage and a reason why this technology is being widely adopted in the most challenging environments.

VS Broadcast Monitoring offers unrivalled depth and breadth of coverage across all electronic media and can monitor an unlimited number of channels simultaneously without any detriment to performance. Offering integrated Meaning Based Computing to automatically analyze, encode and capture content from live data streams, Autonomy Virage allows organizations to monitor breaking stories, advertising, press coverage and much more with unprecedented efficiency. Autonomy also offers sophisticated techniques to create an individual profile of each user and generate automatic, real-time alerts as relevant content emerges, in order to ensure users are kept constantly up-to-date on evolving stories.

Key Capabilities and Benefits include:

Constant update on breaking news
Monitoring of advertising and press coverage
Real-time alerts through SMS, email and mobile phones
Real-time transcriptions of audio feeds
Multilingual translation of broadcasts to compare news in multiple languages
Automatic indexing and encoding of live broadcasts – no need for manual tagging
Cost-cutting by automating manual processes
Instant retrieval of rich media assets with pinpoint accuracy
Full scalability to accommodate any number of feeds

Ad hoc Video Editing

Autonomy Virage supports ad hoc video editing by performing conceptual analysis on live streams in real-time. By analyzing the live data as it is coming in, Autonomy Virage is able to extract the concepts discussed and offer hyperlinks to related videos and files. This means that background information can be retrieved automatically without users having to sift through different archives.