Kaltura Genie

Date Released: July 2025

What's new?

OCR support

Genie now leverages OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to extract text from videos, expanding the range of content Genie can recognize and analyze, while enhancing its knowledge on existing content.

When to use it:

OCR is particularly helpful for videos featuring speakers with presentation slides, classroom recordings showing whiteboards, or any videos with visible on-screen text.

How it works:

1. OCR must be enabled in the Genie configuration for specific Genie IDs.
2. Videos must have OCR metadata, which is generated by ordering a REACH task.
3. Once processed, the OCR data is automatically added to Genie’s database.

What it looks like:

Information from OCR text is integrated in the flashcard summary. If a specific OCR output is relevant, a thumbnail image will be shown with a link to the source entry, which will also appear in the sources list.

See Kaltura Genie - Admin guide for more information. 

Channel-specific Genie

Admins can now enable Genie at the channel level for more contextual answers.

• Choose to enable it for all channels or specific ones.
• A banner on the channel page will link to the channel-specific Genie experience.
• Suggested questions are tailored to match the channel’s content 

See Kaltura Genie - Admin guide for more information. 

Class Genie

Similar to channel-based Genie, Class Genie can now be configured per course.

• Admins can choose to enable it for all courses or specific ones in an LMS Video instance.
• Context can include just the Media Gallery or also subcategories for embedded course content.

See Class Genie - Admin guide for more information. 

Genie on public Video Portal environments

Genie is now available to unauthenticated users in public Video Portal instances. You can enable it via the Configuration Management page in the Genie module. (This option is only available on public Video Portal environments.)

 See Kaltura Genie - Admin guide for more information.