Connectivity optimisation, transcription services, and real-time customer support are among the areas of live production where the value of AI-based technologies is increasingly evident, writes David Davies.
If the use of AI to produce and organise archive material was always going to be complex and controversial, then it stands to reason that its deployment as part of live production workflows was likely to be even more hotly debated. Nonetheless, now that we are a few years into the AI revolution, its primary areas of application in live broadcasting are becoming increasingly clear...
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Whilst the application of virtual production to big-budget tentpole productions will continue, the maturity of workflows and the development of more technical standards will enable the technology to be applied more widely, writes David Davies.
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The application of artificial intelligence in audio is not a recent development, and it’s not coming for our jobs, but it is coming for our audiences. The past year has seen several advances in how AI is impacting audio, and it’s happening on both sides of the production chain, writes Kevin Emmott.
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