Tagged with: BBC World Service
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BBC World Service: Migrating 31 million readers and an 83% improvement in page performance
Chris Hinds
Senior Software Engineer, BBC News
The background behind the re-engineering of thousands of BBC World Service pages.
An international update on BBC Sounds and BBC iPlayer Radio
Lloyd Shepherd
Head of Product, BBC Sounds
The latest on the international availability of the radio and podcast app for mobile and the rollout of the app for Connected TVs.
Leveraging the Tor Network to circumvent blocking of BBC News content
Abdallah al-Salmi
Strategy Analyst, BBC News
Abdallah al-Salmi explains the reasoning behind making the BBC World Service news website available on the Tor Network.
Shifting gear with the World Service
Robin Pembrooke
Director, News Product & Systems
Robin Pemborke, Director of News Products and Systems reviews the past year's achievements with the World Service.
World Service expansion continues with new language websites launch
Neil Doughty
Executive Product Owner, W2020
The new W2020 sites are the first from BBC News to be served over HTTPS by default, which we consider to be an important move for a number of reasons.
Come and help transform the BBC World Service
Robin Pembrooke
Director, News Product & Systems
The World Service is an extraordinary and unique organisation; it is the world’s largest international broadcaster, reaching over 320 million people every week on Radio, TV and Online in 29 different languages.
A virtual voice-over tool for multilingual journalists
BBC News Labs
BBC News Labs and BBC Digital Development have produced an innovative tool called ALTO which assists multilingual journalists in reversioning news video content. ALTO combines a number of language technologies to allow a single language journalist to generate multilingual voice-overs.
Language technology innovation: reversioning international videos with virtual voice-overs
BBC News Labs
We have launched an online pilot service that offers continuous video play in different languages to our global audiences and we are trying out the latest language technology: machine translation and computer-generated voices.
BBC Minute CatchUP: Global news in just 60 seconds
Marlon Parker
Founder, RLabs
BBC Minute CatchUP is a player that sits on your web browser and provides a 60 second news bulletin every half an hour. It’s the first pilot to come out of the Connected Studio / World Service partnership programme and is available to try on BBC Taster.
Digital News Discovery and the launch of Google AMP
Robin Pembrooke
Director, News Product & Systems
Google AMP is a new open and shared, web standard for publishing content pages, optimized for mobile consumption. Google have announced the initiative today and the BBC together with around 20 global publishers have been involved in the design and definition of the approach.
