New MediaScribe Real-Time Captioning and Translation Service from Tightrope Media Systems Wins Best of Show Award at NAB 2025

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, April 21, 2025 – Tightrope Media Systems received Future’s Best of Show Award, presented at the 2025 NAB Show by TV Tech, for its new MediaScribe media accessibility and transcription service. Evaluated by a panel of engineers and industry experts, Future’s Best of Show Awards are selected based on innovation, feature set, perceived value, and application in serving the industry.

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MediaScribe is a hybrid service that uses a hardware interface and cloud-powered automatic speech recognition (ASR) to convert speech into text. It offers real-time text transcriptions and translations for on-premise displays, personal mobile devices, and cable channels. A simple user interface makes it easy to operate for non-technical staff, while a custom vocabulary helps avoid issues with difficult names of regional locations and local public figures.

“Based on requests from our customers, we purpose-built MediaScribe to help government video operations meet or exceed ADA compliance for meeting coverage with real-time and affordable captions and translations,” explained JJ Parker, co-founder and CEO of Tightrope Media Systems. “We are very proud to have been selected for this prestigious award from TV Tech, and look forward to helping more local governments take accessibility to the next level.”

MediaScribe currently provides real-time, in-room translations in 72 languages. Its mobile caption option allows attendees to view captions and real-time translations directly on their personal mobile devices by scanning a QR code. Closed captions can be inserted into live broadcasts by downstream systems, providing real-time broadcast translations in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, and Dutch.

About Tightrope Media Systems

For more than 25 years, Tightrope Media Systems has been providing video distribution and media accessibility solutions that help government and community organizations deliver timely messaging to the right people in the right place at the right time. Its Cablecast community media multiplatform playout automation simplifies video distribution for cable channels, websites, and mobile and OTT streaming devices. And its MediaScribe all-in-one solution provides broadcast and in-room captioning, real-time translation, and meeting transcription. Find out more at www.trms.com or call (612) 866-4118.