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TVV EP 17 - Growing an OTT service via user-sourced subtitles
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In this episode, we are joined by Omkiran (Omki) Sharma, Head of Video Engineering at Rakuten Viki. Omki discusses Viki's origin story and how their user-sourced subtitles led to explosive growth in the early years of their service. He also discusses their video "diff" process to share subtitles between multiple pieces of content that are slightly different from one market to another. Omki also highlights the challenges and opportunities that Viki faced heading into and during the pandemic.
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1. TVV EP 17 - Growing an OTT service via user-sourced subtitles (00:00:00)
2. Who is Viki? The relation between Viki and Rakuten (00:03:02)
3. Major viewers of Viki (00:09:03)
4. History of subtitling process (00:13:29)
5. Unique challenge that Viki is facing and going to resolve (00:21:16)
6. How can GPT potentially be leveraged in Viki platform (00:38:34)
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