The studio aims to cut time and costs with a new caption-generation tool using artificial intelligence in the production pipeline.

Warner Bros. Discovery has launched a new AI-powered Google Cloud solution to generate closed captions for content on Max.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has agreed a deal with Google Cloud to use the latter's Vertex AI to generate captions for programming across a variety of platforms. WBD claims that its Caption AI system can significantly reduce production time and costs while improving the accuracy of captions for US-based viewers.

Warner Bros. Discovery is partnering with Google to integrate the internet giant's AI technology into its Max video streaming platform to automatically generate captions. The two companies said they were working to make Max's captions more accurate using a new caption-generation tool, which is being referred to internally as "caption AI."

The new AI-powered captioning solution can reduce time spent captioning by 80% and cost by 50%, but it would still require human oversight at first.

Discovery (WBD) is partnering with Google Cloud to generate closed captioning for content on the studio’s Max streaming service in the US. WBD will use a new “caption AI” solution that runs on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to generate speech-to-text for some shows,

Google (GOOGL) and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced Tuesday they are partnering to introduce artificial intelligence-generated closed captioning.

The next closed captions you read during a streaming Max show might come courtesy of AI, the streamer announced Tuesday. Max parent Warner Bros. Says it’s teaming up with Google to roll out generative AI-created closed captions for some of its content,