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AI for Live Entertainment: Announcing, Translation and Accessibility
Friday, March 6th, 2026 | 5PM-6PM
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While AI is common in visual media today, the world of Live Events can benefit from these tools in many ways, ranging from maximizing accessibility with affordable & accurate automated captioning and text translations to reach larger audiences, to the creation of synthetic and human-modeled voices to create content ranging from the very creative, to the mundane but necessary (such as PA announcing). Introducing Generative AI into the equation further opens up opportunities to create content on the fly, from data sources as disparate as time of day, building automation data, weather service data, and much more.
This presentation will firstly show how AI is used to generate live on-site captions and translations from the spoken word and how they can be displayed. Then fun begins when we use Generative GPT AI to take limited presentation or content information and have it embellish it to build rich bodies of text to inform or entertain audiences, especially when we convert that in real-time to synthetic AI-generated human voices of different genders and accents, including human-like AI-generated characters, which can creatively open up vast new areas of creative expression with just a few keystrokes, or even from fully automated routines.
About Bill Bennett:
A media & entertainment technology veteran, Bill currently manages new product innovations at ENCO Systems (including R&D, POC's, design, marketing, documentation, etc.), where he created award-winning products such as enTranslate Mobile for live captions & translations to handhelds, the AIM platform for blending automated STT, TTS & Generative AI voicing for messaging, and ENCO's Live Stage Captioning product and rental category. He also manages ENCO's offering of Qimera, an Unreal Engine-based Virtual Production system.
He has managed venue technical deployments & operations for seven Olympics for worldwide host Olympic Broadcasting Services. His prior freelance engineering experience spans many professional sports leagues and worldwide events, and he’s owned his own profitable laser show production company. Currently a Board Member of the Association of Public Radio Engineers (APRE), he’s immediate past chair of the SMPTE Pittsburgh Section, former SBE Pittsburgh secretary, and served on the Technical and Ethics Committee of the International Laser Display Association (ILDA). Previously he led the premier creation of interactive TV, OTT and VOD services at QVC, Inc. and worked for German audio leader Lawo AG.
