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Mojo Vision Appoints Dr. Achin Bhowmik to the Board of Directors

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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Achin Bhowmik to its board of directors.

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  • Mojo Vision, the high-performance micro-LED company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Achin Bhowmik to its board of directors.
  • With Bhowmik’s appointment, Mojo Vision is tapping 23 years of industry experience in perceptual computing, display, and semiconductor business.
  • “Mojo Vision is a pioneering display technology company, consistently breaking new ground in micro-LED advancements, including its recent achievement of single-panel RGB.
  • “Adding Dr. Bhowmik to our board brings Mojo that much closer to the commercialization of our high-performance micro-LED technology,” said Drew Perkins, chairman of the board of directors and co-founder.

The National Captioning Institute Appoints Accomplished Accessibility Leader As New Technology Operations Manager

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
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CHANTILLY, Va., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The National Captioning Institute (NCI), the media accessibility pioneer since 1979, announced Scott Pentoney as NCI's Technology Operations Manager effective April 25, 2022.

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  • CHANTILLY, Va., May 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --The National Captioning Institute (NCI), the media accessibility pioneer since 1979, announced Scott Pentoney as NCI's Technology Operations Manager effective April 25, 2022.
  • Scott comes to NCI with more than twenty years of strategic planning, workforce development, and diversity/inclusion outreach experience at ESPN.
  • Scott will be overseeing the Broadcast Support and Automated Captioning Specialist teams, providing direction and leadership while maintaining process and procedure integrity.
  • for Operations and Chief Operating Officer Meredith Patterson notes, "Scott is an accomplished leader whose caption compliance experience and passion for accessibility make him an outstanding addition to NCI."

Riverside Partners' Portfolio Company 3Play Media Acquires Captionmax

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Wednesday, February 16, 2022
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Over the course of Riverside Partners' investment in 3Play Media, the Company has significantly grown and continued to invest in its video accessibility platform.

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  • Over the course of Riverside Partners' investment in 3Play Media, the Company has significantly grown and continued to invest in its video accessibility platform.
  • "We are thrilled to support the combination of 3Play Media and Captionmax," said David Del Papa, a General Partner at Riverside Partners.
  • "Captionmax has maintained its strong position in the market by consistently delivering high quality solutions," said Josh Miller, Co-CEO of 3Play Media.
  • served as legal counsel to Captionmax on this transaction.Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP served as legal counsel to 3Play Media.

The National Captioning Institute Uses Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) Closed Captioning Solution to Meet Growing Demand

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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The dramatic demand for captioning precipitated by COVID-19 led NCI to once again use innovation to fulfill its mission.

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  • The dramatic demand for captioning precipitated by COVID-19 led NCI to once again use innovation to fulfill its mission.
  • NCI turned to CaptionSentry, its proprietary ASR captioning servicethat utilizes state-of-the-art speech-to-text technology to transform real-time audio into nearly verbatim and highly accurate closed captions.
  • A team of Automated Captioning Specialists was trained to monitor CaptionSentry connections 24/7 and troubleshoot in real time a support feature unique to NCI.
  • Its highly-skilled captioning staff supplies world-class captioning, subtitling and translation, and Audio Description services for TV broadcasting, Internet,Video on Demand, and educational and government institutions.

3Play Media Hires Proven Accessibility Leader From the National Captioning Institute To Lead Live Captioning Product

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Thursday, September 16, 2021
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3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today that it has hired Jill Brooks, former President and Chief Operating Officer at the National Captioning Institute (NCI), to lead its live video captioning efforts.

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  • 3Play Media, the leading video accessibility provider, announced today that it has hired Jill Brooks, former President and Chief Operating Officer at the National Captioning Institute (NCI), to lead its live video captioning efforts.
  • We are thrilled to bring Jill, an accessibility trailblazer, to 3Play Media to help us redefine the live captioning market, Chris Antunes, Co-CEO and Co-founder, 3Play Media, said.
  • Brooks spent 23 years at the National Captioning Institute, the preeminent non-profit in the captioning market.
  • 3Play Media is an integrated video accessibility platform with patented solutions for closed captioning, transcription, live captioning, audio description, and subtitling.

CaptionSentry: An In-Depth Look into the Premier Real-Time Automated Captioning Solution from the National Captioning Institute

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Friday, April 9, 2021
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CHANTILLY, Va., April 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The National Captioning Institute (NCI) is thrilled to announcea30-minutefreewebinarexploringthe benefits ofCaptionSentry,NCI'sproprietary Automated CaptioningSolution.CaptionSentryis the premierReal-timeASR captioning service for English and Spanish programming that blendsinnovativeartificial intelligence (AI) with NCI's unparalleled humanexpertise.

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  • CHANTILLY, Va., April 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The National Captioning Institute (NCI) is thrilled to announcea30-minutefreewebinarexploringthe benefits ofCaptionSentry,NCI'sproprietary Automated CaptioningSolution.CaptionSentryis the premierReal-timeASR captioning service for English and Spanish programming that blendsinnovativeartificial intelligence (AI) with NCI's unparalleled humanexpertise.
  • Join us ThursdayApril 22, 202111:00 PST/14:00 ESTfor "CaptionSentry: An In-Depth Look into the Premier Real-Time Automated Captioning Solution from NCI.
  • About NCI:The National Captioning Institute pioneered live closed captioning for television in 1982 and now captions thousands of hours of programming each year.
  • With a highly skilled captioning staff andstate-of-the-artfacilities, NCI supplies world-class captioning, subtitling and translation, and Audio Description services for TV broadcasting, Internet, VideoOnDemand, and educational and government institutions.

The National Captioning Institute Offers Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) Closed Captioning Solution

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
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CHANTILLY, Va., Dec. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The National Captioning Institute (NCI) proudly presents CaptionSentry, the premier real-time ASR captioning service for English and Spanish programming that blends cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) with NCI's unparalleled human expertise.

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  • CHANTILLY, Va., Dec. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --The National Captioning Institute (NCI) proudly presents CaptionSentry, the premier real-time ASR captioning service for English and Spanish programming that blends cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) with NCI's unparalleled human expertise.
  • As the demand for closed captioning continues to increase, clients have turned to NCI's CaptionSentry to cover hundreds of hours per month.
  • NCI continues to set itself apart by being the only company to offer a blended ASR/human captioning solution."
  • About NCI: The National Captioning Institute pioneered liveclosedcaptioning for television in 1982 and now captions thousands of hoursof programming each year.