IBC 2025 for Educators: AI Captioning, Smarter Archives, and Story-First Production – with Haven Tsang

IBC 2025 for Educators: AI Captioning, Smarter Archives, and Story-First Production – with Haven Tsang

Author: TESOL Pop September 16, 2025 Duration: 15:28

Creators of TESOL Pop, Laura Wilkes and Technical Director Haven Tsang, report from IBC 2025 in Amsterdam with practical takeaways for educators using media. From live multilingual captioning and voice overdubs to richer, human-centred metadata and the storytelling craft behind Becoming Led Zeppelin, this episode unpacks the media tech shaping how we teach, learn, and share ideas.


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TALKING POINTS

  1. Live Multilingual Captioning & Dubbing: Why real-time captions plus AI voice overdubs can open up lectures, events, and training to a truly global audience.
  2. Search That Thinks Like You: How richer semantic metadata makes archives more findable (think “green car in a courtroom” vs keyword guesswork).
  3. Story First, Always: Lessons from Becoming Led Zeppelin on research, restraint, and choosing a focused narrative over “everything we have in the archive.”
  4. Post Is Solved in Pre: Haven’s rule of thumb — plan the storyboards and coverage up front to save time (and headaches) in the edit.
  5. What Educators Can Do Now: Concrete ways to start using captions, smarter tagging, and tighter planning in your next course video or podcast.


ABOUT

Haven Tsang has 20+ years of experience in broadcast and post-production. He leads on workflow design, editing, colour and sound for client projects, and supports educators in bringing professional production standards to their videos and podcasts.


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CREDITS

Producer: Laura Wilkes

Editor and Guest: Haven Tsang

Production by Communicating for Impact

Special thanks to IBC for the opportunity to be official content creators this year and for the incredible experience.


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