Softel Group

Softel specialises in ancillary data, providing solutions for captioning and subtitling as well as ad insertion, we also have an audio-description solution allowing the visually impaired viewers to access video broadcasts, as well as an Interactive TV platform that helps broadcasters and MSOs bring innovative interactive applications to their networks. We are experts in captioning and subtitling, and over the years our Swift family of software has evolved into a complete end-to-end solution that performs a whole range of caption and subtitle processes.

The latest Softel Swift family of software provides solutions for creating captions and subtitles in SD, HD and 3D, and is capable of encoding them, repurposing them and transmitting them automatically.

Softel also supports broadcasters and MSOs with their interactive TV applications with our unique and versatile MediaSphere interactive TV platform. It’s a cost effective solution supporting a multitude of formats such as EBIF, tru2way, OpenTV and MHEG and it provides multiple playout of interactive applications through a single box, while allowing developers to test and verify their applications at each stage of the development cycle.
We work closely with some of the most prestigious broadcasters around the world to understand what they are looking to deliver their customers in the future. They are the trend setters so we get involved right at the beginning and get a good understanding of future applications and features that will ultimately give them the edge on their competitors. We then assess with them the technical, operational and financial challenges they have to resolve to achieve their goal and we set out to develop our solutions accordingly.
That allows us to ensure our solutions are versatile and future-proof, addressing a wide range of fundamental workflow issues.

Specialties

Subtitling and closed captioning, Audio description, Interactive TV Application testing and playout, Teletext, Ancillary data processing