Oak for TV Channels in Hong Kong From two hours of show review to a polished, branded summary in minutes.
Client situation
TV channel teams face the time-consuming task of watching every show to manually create summaries — requiring 2–3 hours of dedicated work for each summary. This process quickly becomes inefficient with the high volume of content produced across daily news, entertainment, talk shows and current affairs.
Generic summarisation tools produce homogenous output: every show ends up reading the same. Editorial voice gets flattened, category-specific structure is lost, and producers end up rewriting summaries from scratch anyway.
The Oak solution
- → One template per show category — news segments, talk-show interviews, lifestyle features, current affairs panels — each with its own structure, tone, and required fields.
- → High-quality Cantonese transcription as the base, so summaries are built on accurate ground truth, not guesswork.
- → Ask AI for show-specific queries — "What did the guest say about housing policy?" "Pull the three strongest quotes for social."
Key achievements
- Enhanced efficiency and consistency
- High-quality, customised content summaries across different show categories
- 2–3 hours of manual work per show down to minutes
Common questions from TV teams
Can we have a different template for every show?
Yes — and most networks do. A template per programme, sometimes per segment. Once defined, every episode is summarised the same way.
How fast is the turnaround?
For most shows, transcript and summary are ready within minutes of the recording finishing — fast enough to publish a digital recap before the show is off-air.
Can we run it on archive footage?
Yes — bulk processing of archives is supported on Enterprise plans. Useful for retro-cataloguing and for training new editorial staff.
What about subtitling and closed captions?
SRT and plain text exports are native. See Oak for Broadcasting Service for the full post-production workflow.
Can we extract just the highlight quotes for social?
Yes — a single Ask AI prompt: "Pull the three strongest soundbites for Instagram, with timestamps." See Best Practices for Reviewing AI-Generated Summaries.
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