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PILOT, the innovation arm of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), today announced Amira Labs, AudioShake and Chord Communities as the winners of the 2024 PILOT Innovation Challenge and named Black Stock Footage and ConnectionOpen as honorable mentions. The winners will receive a trip to the 2024 NAB Show, held April 13–17, in Las Vegas. They will also be given exhibit space on the convention floor to demonstrate their products to potential customers, investors and partners, and the opportunity to present their findings in the Connect Zone Theater.
The PILOT Innovation Challenge specifically sought products or prototypes that align with three focus areas of the 2024 NAB Show associated with the content lifecycle: Create, Capitalize and Connect. Winning submissions provided compelling solutions to key challenges and opportunities facing broadcasters over the coming two to three years.
This year’s winners are:
Amira Labs:Specializes in AI-centric, cloud-based broadcasting solutions for enhancing real-time audio and video content integrity with unparalleled multi-language capabilities. Cloud-based, containerized, AI-driven system designed for real-time audio and video processing, crucial for use-cases like quality service monitoring, content localization and metadata extraction for archiving. AudioShake:Opens up content workflows with audio separation AI. Its technology can split a recording into its stems to power next-gen audio experiences in film, TV, music and sports. AudioShake is used for audio editing, remastering, immersive mixing, synthetic voice, ASR, copyright compliance and more. Chord Communities:Enables broadcast organizations to easily create thriving online communities, rich with actionable first-party data. Its integrated customer data platform CDP and segmentation