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Zetta Enhancement

September 1, 2017 by May Chi

Building a truly capable, multi-station system with no artificial restrictions was one of the core ingredients added when Zetta was conceived more than a decade ago.

There are many benefits for multiple stations to live inside of a single system, and one of them is the ability to share resources. With Zetta you can add a new song or commercial once and then decide, on a per station basis, whether the asset is available and playable (active) on a given station. But audio asset management is not the only area where we embraced the concept: for example, users can create any number of so-called “Banks” under Hot Keys or Stacks modules, and these Banks can be used by all stations in the system – useful for generic sound effects, newscast items etc. This works great for many sites but could also get out of hand if way too many banks exist in the system – and the number is growing every day – finding the correct Bank in a long list may become too cumbersome.

In the latest Zetta version 4.2 we added a few enhancements that will drastically improve the user experience in this area. First of all, you can just click into the Bank selector and start typing; the Banks that match your text will immediately show up and you can pick the desired one either by clicking it or arrowing down on your keyboard and hitting Enter. Even on a system with hundreds or even thousands of Banks you can find the right one within no more than a couple of seconds.

Secondly, we substantially improved Bank management capabilities. By default, all newly created Banks are available on all stations in the system. If the number of Banks or stations you operate is fairly low, you may be perfectly fine with the default behavior. If, however, things are getting unmanageable, we now give you powerful tools that let you assign Banks to one or multiple stations. A Bank that is not assigned to a station will not be available for the station selected in the module (yes, this is rather similar to the asset activation model mentioned above).

On the screenshot below, a Hot Key bank called “Alex’s Weekend Show” is assigned to two stations: RCS Hot AC and Classic Rock. In addition to this one-station-at-a-time assignment scenario you can also “mass-assign” a Bank to a group of stations in one shot, via the Organizations assignment (Mighty Mike and Standard on the screenshot). In this model, instead of explicitly specifying a station, you indirectly choose a collection of stations by selecting an Organization (which stations are members of the given organization is defined under Configuration | Organizations). Through a single Organization, you can easily assign a Bank to many stations in one shot. As shown in the example below, you can also select multiple organizations; you can even combine both Station and Organization assignments on the same Bank.

Finally, as you will notice in Zetta 4.2, there are a number of other tweaks and enhancements in this area of the user interface. For example, it is now very easy to modify properties of all existing banks via the Edit button) and, all of the capabilities covered above are not limited to Hot Keys only – the same functionality is now also available for another popular module, Stacks.

This is just one of the many enhancements added in Zetta Version 4.2. Please check out rcscommunity.com for a full list of enhancements in this version and do not hesitate to ask questions or submit suggestions for future enhancements.

Filed Under: Zetta Tagged With: Product Updates, Radio Automation

Zetta Shows Off A New Custom Fields Look

July 25, 2017 by May Chi

This new feature wraps up an effort we started many years ago (in Zetta 2.8) by introducing the custom field framework. Zetta now has a nice and friendly face on a feature that previously lacked ability for users to review and manage their own fields in Zetta.

Filed Under: Zetta Tagged With: Product Updates

Speech to Text Transcriber

May 1, 2017 by May Chi

(Announced at NAB 2017) – RCS, the world’s largest broadcast software company, has announced a breakthrough in combining voice recognition technology with studio automation. Its new Speech to Text Transcriber makes RCS the first automation company in the world to offer integrated speech recognition to identify Voice Tracks. The new tool was demonstrated on the RCS booth at NAB, Las Vegas.

There is also the potential for live speech to text to follow in the future, and support for different languages.

RCS President/CEO Philippe Generali commented: “There are so many ways a PD may be able to use a transcribed Voice Tracks feature. Imagine being able to visually audit the tracks without having to listen. You can also imagine the system being set up to catch certain words or phrases that you didn’t want to go out, or which contravened station policy.”

The new Speech To Text Transcriber will appear in Zetta as another feature model – the company is also working on the possibility of also integrating the technology into its RCS News product.

RCS says the new feature is part of the company’s focus on providing tools to help broadcasters with brand management and promotional messaging. The new feature has a patent pending.

Filed Under: Zetta Tagged With: Product Updates, Radio Speech To Text

Playback While Recording

March 13, 2017 by May Chi

In NexGen, the process to record audio in the background is called “DRR” or Digital Reel to Reel, which is a term it inherited from Audio Wizard. With Zetta, we call this process Background Recorder (or BGR), which is a nod to RCS Master Control as that’s what it was called in that product. Regardless, Zetta’s functionality in this module is far and above everything we had done in the past. I wrote about this in the April 2014 connect, but one tip I didn’t mention which I recently used is that Zetta (unlike it’s ancestors) allows you to record from the same record device to multiple assets. Meaning, if you wanted to record an entire hour of a show to one asset in the system, but also wanted to capture network spots to others, there is no problem. While on the topic of BGR, in Zetta 4.2, we have expanded its capability in the area of “Playback while recording”. One improvement beyond NexGen’s implementation of this is that you can actually bring up a recording asset while it is in the library, and listen to, and copy audio out of an asset if you like. And you can do so from any Zetta client on the network.

In Zetta 4.2, you might be interested to know that we now natively support HTTP Now Playing Event feeds. Whether you need GET or POST, you can add all your necessary query string, parameters and headers to create all sorts of great listener experiences using live Zetta Now playing data.

Filed Under: Zetta Tagged With: Product Updates

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