ENCO DAD Radio Workflow Brings Automation And AI Together

ENCO is building on its legacy of radio automation leadership with the direct integration of AI and cloud toolsets into its DAD automation workflow. At NAB Show 2024, ENCO is showing how built-in WebDAD functionality simplifies and improves on-air and production workflows by extending DAD’s reach to more places through a scalable and affordable architecture. ENCO has also unveiled the integration of AITrack for voice tracking and dynamic content insertion within the DAD and WebDAD architecture.
ENCO’s WebDAD platform extends the DAD universe in a more streamlined manner, allowing users to manage and control studio based ENCO DAD radio automation systems from anywhere. Offering remote access for everything from uploading content and modifying playlists to voice tracking, WebDAD enables flexible remote working models for broadcasters by letting users efficiently manage their on-air and production operations even when personnel isn’t physically in the station’s facilities.
ENCO has added several new features to WebDAD that better align the user experience with traditional DAD systems. Top of this list is the addition of DAD’s familiar Presenter on-air interface, providing remote WebDAD operators with the same live assist interface users enjoy in the on-air studio. WebDAD also now offers more granular control over user permissions, including controlled access to libraries, functions and systems; and added support for third-party accessibility, simplifying usability for people with impairments or disabilities.
ENCO is also demonstrating the benefits of using AITrack, one of two AI applications that ENCO previewed last year at NAB, as part of the DAD and WebDAD workflow. Introduced as a simple automatic voice track application, ENCO has evolved the AITrack universe as a multifaceted AI production toolset. Users can now pre-schedule and customize automated voice tracks that use synthetic voices to produce natural-sounding, engaging content between songs. AITrack also amplifies the on-air experience, providing instant turnaround for dynamic insertions of breaking news, weather, sports and more into live broadcasts. Operators can also create and schedule unique content, such as summarizing earlier shows or giving a detailed introduction of future song blocks, within DAD for playout at specified times.
ENCO is also demonstrating its SPECai solution, which leverages generative AI models to create spec ads with human-sounding voices within seconds.
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