Transcription and accessibility
for government meetings

Make your live meetings more accessible to your residents by providing realtime text transcriptions and translations.

MediaScribe is a hybrid service that combines a hardware interface and cloud-powered AI services to provide an easy to use and flexible workflow. MediaScribe ingests your meeting broadcast via SDI, transcribes the audio, then displays that transcription is a variety of ways. The 3 SDI outputs can be configured for closed captions, open captions, or in-room captions. These signals can be routed through standard AV equipment or converted to HDMI for standard displays. Beyond on-wall displays, the transcriptions can also be viewed on personal mobile devices. All text can be translated into a variety of languages to help keep your residents informed.

In-Room Captions

Open Captions

Closed Captions

Mobile Captions

In-Room Captions

Create a more accessible meeting environment by displaying live captions on a dedicate screens in your chambers. You can display english or a variety of other  languages to enhance accessibility for your residents. The display can be customized with your logo and branding to match your design aesthetic.

Open Captions

Open captions are displayed over your meeting's live video feed. This is a perfect solution for entryways, hallways, and overflow areas. Open captions allow viewers to see and read what is happening in the chambers without having the sound on the TV.

Closed Captions

Closed captions are the broadcast standard for transmitting text information in a video feed. MediaScribe can insert closed caption data into your video to be used by downstream systems.

Mobile Captions

Mobile captions allow users to view real-time captions directly on their own mobile devices. This provides a personalized and accessible experience during live events or meetings. Residents can simply scan a QR code to bring up the live feed of captions without an app download or special network setups.

Language Support

Reach your residential population by supporting the most spoken languages in your city. MediaScribe supports English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, and Dutch.

Custom Vocabulary

We know your city has hard to pronounce street (and mayor) names. MediaScibe allows you to create custom vocabulary and replacements for those hard to transcribe names.

Built for you

MediaScribe’s simple user interface with configurations presents makes is a snap for everyone from your TV staff to the city clerk to start and stop your meeting experiences.

Media Recording

MediaScribe records full video, audio, transcriptions, and translations of your meetings. You can use it as a primary recorder or backup to your broadcast workflow. Assets are available to download in multiple formats, including full video, audio-only files, and transcripts, ensuring versatile access for various needs and platforms.

Configuration Presets

Not all meetings are the same. Store different configurations of IO’s and languages so operators can easily switch between meeting types without having to worry about all the technical details.

Gateway Appliance

With flexible IO's, the MedisScibe gateway appliance fits into your current workflow.
  • Input
    • SDI
  • Output
    • 3 configurable SDI outputs
  • SDI output types
    • Closed captions
    • Open captions
    • In-room captions
  • Network
    • Gigabit Ethernet
  • Dimensions
    • 2RU

How it connects

A MediaScribe appliance serves as the interface between the physical IOs in your facility and the MediaScribe cloud service. This appliance is included as a part of your MediaScribe subscription.

MediaScribe in Action

MediaScribe is currently in closed beta. If you are interested in enhancing your municipal meeting join the waitlist and we will let you know as soon as we are shipping!

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