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 will be exhibiting at IBC2025, the world’s leading media and tech event, taking place in Amsterdam. This year, plain X will be part of the brand-new Future Tech Focus in Hall 14, a dedicated space showcasing the most disruptive innovations in AI, cloud, 5G, virtual production, and accessibility. Built for the future of […]
The Global Media Forum is an annual conference attracting around 2000 journalists and media experts from around the world discussing the future of journalism. The event is hosted by Deutsche Welle and takes place in Bonn, Germany. This year’s motto “Breaking barriers, building bridges” perfectly matched the idea of plain X live subtitling: connecting people […]
From 2022 to June 2025, Deutsche Welle (DW) provided curated news content to 190 screens throughout Frankfurt Airport, keeping travelers informed with the latest headlines. This project was made possible through a close partnership between Priberam (Lisbon, Portugal) and DW, leveraging the capabilities of the plain X human language technology platform. How It Worked Content […]
Date: July 4, 2025 Location: University of Leeds Audience: Professional live-subtitlers, translators, researchers, and broadcasters Panel: Challenges and Opportunities in AI-Powered Live Broadcast Subtitling Participants: Albert Gyurica (RTVS) Francesc Mas (CCMA/3CAT) Callum Hussey & Charlotte Parashchak (Sky UK) Mirko Lorenz (Deutsche Welle) Chairperson: Professor Pilar Orero (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona) Conference Overview The ICoLS conference brought together leading professionals […]
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 […]
plain X is proud to be one of the official sponsors of Meet Central Europe 2025, one of the most relevant conferences in the translation and localization industry across Central Europe. The brand will be present with its own booth, showcasing powerful solutions for transcription, translation, subtitling, and voice-over. plain X will be at Meet […]
AI-supported transcription and translations of the Arabic language is a challenge, mainly for two reasons: Firstly todays engines have not as much training data on Arabic as for English. Secondly, there are quite a number of Arabic dialects, which differ from Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which is used as a standard for writing. We wanted […]
