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Automated voice recognition setup in Nimble Streamer

January 22, 2025 Yury Udovichenko

The Nimble Streamer team has recently introduced speech recognition and translation for live streaming powered by Whisper.cpp AI engine. It’s an important feature set that allows live content to be more accessible for any audience and improve overall user experience. In this article, we’ll describe how to enable and set up automatic voice recognition and […]

Inside of WebRTC adaptive bitrate streaming algorithm from Softvelum

December 3, 2024 Yury Udovichenko

We explain the internals of Nimble Streamer WHEP ABR playback. It uses unique approach for adjusting viewers’ sessions quality to provide the best customers’ satisfaction for all viewers on any available bandwidth and network conditions.

Boosting live transcoding with AMD Alveo U30 on AWS EC2 VT1 with Nimble Streamer

September 27, 2024 Yury Udovichenko

Nimble Streamer Transcoder supports AMD Alveo U30 hardware acceleration on both bare metal and AWS EC2 VT1

Troubleshooting MPEG-TS streaming

September 20, 2024 Yury Udovichenko

Recommendations for troubleshooting MPEGTS processing in Nimble Streamer. Nimble Streamer has several settings to deal with problematic media sources to avoid glitches and artifacts.

Convert DVB teletext to WebVTT for HLS

July 25, 2024 Yury Udovichenko

In addition to our previous conversion of DVB subtitles into WebVTT for HLS, we added teletext support as well. It’s a widely adopted technology and our customers requested this for some time. The setup of teletext conversion is similar to subtitles with some differences. Prerequisites We assume you have the following setup before moving any […]