Indonesia is one of the most linguistically complex countries on earth. With over 700 indigenous local languages spoken across the archipelago, and more than 97% of Indonesians fluent in the national language, Bahasa Indonesia is one of the great language policy successes of the modern era — and its origin is worth knowing. On 28 […]
Transcribing interviews is easily the most energy-draining routine in journalistic work. You sit with a recording, you type, you rewind, you type again. The content is already there — getting it onto the page is just friction. Translation has a similar quality: necessary, time-consuming, and not where a journalist’s skill is actually needed. This is […]
At Deutsche Welle’s headquarters, around 100 specialists from roughly 50 public service media (PSM) broadcasters gathered for the annual meeting of the EBU Access Services Community. The theme was both timely and ambitious: how can we use AI to promote accessibility and deliver essential access services to audiences who rely on them every day? plain […]
Global broadcasters like Deutsche Welle and the BBC face a dilemma – they want to offer their content in as many languages as possible, but manual content adaptation eats up time and budget. At the same time, they can’t relinquish quality control. The solution doesn’t lie in fully automated AI, but in intelligent support with […]
Accessibility (a11y) ensures that digital platforms can be used by everyone, including people with and without disabilities. Different users need different requirements, visual, auditory, motor, or cognitive, to interact with the content. At this moment plain X provides a good coverage of WCAG AA level. One of our main goals is to become a platform […]
On September 14 at 14:35, our Head of Development, Sebastião Miranda, will take the Future Tech Stage at IBC to present plain X, the all-in-one platform that is already transforming how media organizations handle multilingual content. In just five minutes, you’ll get a glimpse of how plain X streamlines essential localization tasks into a single […]
We’re excited to announce that plain X is now also available with a full user interface in Dutch! This new addition joins our growing list of supported languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, English, European Portuguese, French, Galician, German, Spanish and Ukrainian. This update is especially meaningful as we prepare for our presence at IBC 2025 in […]
plain X has just integrated Scribe, the powerful new transcription engine from ElevenLabs, bringing even greater accuracy and language coverage to its automatic transcription service. With this addition, 98 languages, including many that are typically underrepresented in commercial tools, now have a new transcription alternative available inside the platform complementing the existing engine options already […]
