AP to Automate Video, Audio Transcription with Trint
New York City, NY(30 May 2018)
The Associated Press and Trint announced today that they will work together to automate AP’s video and audio transcription process, streamlining the news agency’s workflow.
AP video journalists across the globe will use Trint to transcribe recorded interviews and events for use in the video and text news report. The transcriptions are reviewed by journalists for accuracy before the content is published.
Launched in 2016, Trint uses artificial intelligence to quickly generate searchable transcriptions of audio and video that can promptly be verified and timed.
“Rolling out Trint across our video teams allows our journalists to work smarter and helps us deliver content faster. Our producers check the work rather than spend hours creating it, which frees up time to focus on the most urgent stories that need our attention,” said Derl McCrudden, AP deputy managing editor for digital and visual journalism. “We’re also able to assess the news value of some content much faster, and that means we’re getting the most important sound bites out to customers more quickly.”
In a pilot project, AP journalists in production centers in New York, Washington and London, as well as several bureaus including Mexico City, Berlin and Moscow, used Trint to transcribe audio and video from recorded interviews rather than doing so manually. The pilot found that video producers were spending more than 45 minutes per day on manual transcription. Using Trint resulted in a significant reduction in transcription time.
“We are thrilled to work with AP, the world’s most trusted news organization, in solving one of the most tedious, time-consuming and expensive parts of the reporting process,” said Trint founder and CEO Jeff Kofman, an Emmy-winning broadcast journalist and war correspondent (ABC, CBS and CBC News). “Our goal is to create a seamless and smarter workflow so journalists at AP and other news organizations can spend less time on laborious stenography and more time creating content. AP has shown us that Trint can increase productivity and allow their teams to focus on doing what they do best - reporting and publishing high-quality journalism.”
By merging two pieces of software — a text editor and audio/video player — into one, Trint glues the source audio and video to the text on the screen, making it possible to search recorded content by keywords, verify a machine-generated transcript in seconds, polish it in minutes and export it in multiple formats. With reasonably clean audio, accuracy rates can be better than 95 percent.
AP has integrated the Trint Enterprise application programming interface into its content management system, allowing easy onboarding via single sign-on. Trint Enterprise includes a customizable administrative dashboard, secure data encryption, an Adobe Premiere plugin, and the recently launched Vocab Builder, which lets users create a custom list of brand names, technical terms, and other uncommon words to make automated transcription even more accurate. Trint is also available on iOS mobile.
Trint will work closely with AP to incorporate feedback and update features to further enhance the product and streamline the transcribing, editing and publishing process.
About AP
The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. Founded in 1846, AP today is the most trusted source of independent news and information. On any given day, more than half the world's population sees news from AP. On the web: www.ap.org.
About Trint
Trint is the first automated transcription service to combine a text editor and an audio/video player into one easy-to-use tool. Based in Shoreditch in London, UK, Trint was established in December 2014. It is backed by funding from the Google Digital News Initiative, the Knight Enterprise Fund and Hong Kong based Horizons Ventures and has been supported by BBC Worldwide Labs and Cisco. Trint is transforming the searching and sharing of recorded content in 13 languages with a unique collection of features that includes instant search of recorded content, easy speaker identification, instant timing, and a variety of formats for export as a text document or subtitles. For more visit www.trint.com. Follow Trint on Twitter (@TrintHQ) and Facebook.