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AI-Powered Live Closed Captioning for Public Broadcasts

Accountable

Mayor's Office

Functional Modes

Sensing (Perceptive AI)

Autonomous

Purpose

Accessibility

Input Dataset

Biometric Identifiable data

Algorithm or Model

Speech & Audio

Output Dataset

Generated content Anonymized data

Details

This system uses AI-based automatic speech recognition to generate closed captions in real time for live-broadcasted public events, including City Council hearings and content on the NYC World cable channel. It is operated by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment using a vendor appliance from AppTek. The system processes spoken words from live broadcasts and produces written captions autonomously, with no human review of each caption before it appears on screen.