ENCO: AI, AR, VR, XR at InfoComm 2025

Ken Frommert discussed trends, products, and what to expect at the ENCO booth. Leading up to InfoComm 2025, exhibitors were asked to discuss trends, technology, inspiration, and share insights of what they’ll show in their booths. Ken Frommert, president, ENCO, talked about AI and speech-to-text conversion.

AI Trend

AI will be the dominant trend. Manufacturers in the AV space are applying AI in different ways. There is opportunity in the AV community for AI in speech-to-text conversion, especially for live events and staging, including captioning as well as real-time, multi-lingual translations.

ENCO Focus at InfoComm

ENCO will showcase its real-time Qimera virtual production system with an emphasis on its AR, VR, and XR capabilities powered through its graphics engine. Visitors can learn how its package can support use cases, such as how corporate clients can apply AR graphics for video productions and leverage the ecosystem for internal communications as well as external streams.

Another priority is using the enCaption Sierra system for speech-to-text conversion as well as text-to-speech, which uses synthetic voice for content creation. The enTranslate plug-in handles on-the-fly content translation and can provide overdubs using AI voices.

InfoComm Inspiration

ENCO finds inspiration in learning about customer and partner projects, and trends outside of its focus areas. They enjoy learning how to leverage technologies in new ways that solve problems and create solutions. InfoComm provides a venue for relationship building.

AI Improves Live Captioning

AI allows leveraging larger language models to improve the quality and accuracy of captions and translations to exceed the level of service that human stenographers provide.