Document Processing
ESPN wanted to expand sports coverage for smaller leagues and more teams, but editorial processes could not scale written recaps fast enough to serve every fan segment economically.
Reported impact
ESPN can create more sports coverage for underserved leagues, deliver more personalized fan experiences, and expand recap production without scaling editorial headcount one story at a time.
Accenture helped ESPN build a generative AI content workflow that produces game recaps for leagues that previously received less written coverage. The solution ingests ESPN and league-licensed sports data including box scores, play-by-play feeds, rosters, standings, schedule pages, and audio transcripts when they are available. That data is processed by a gen AI summarization layer that drafts recap narratives designed to help fans quickly understand what happened in each match. The output is not published autonomously: ESPN editors review and refine the generated copy before it appears on ESPN.com and the ESPN app, preserving editorial control while increasing throughput. By combining structured sports data, optional transcript inputs, AI drafting, and human review, ESPN created a scalable publishing pipeline that broadens coverage without requiring a linear increase in newsroom labor.
Licensed game data and available audio transcripts are gathered for each match, passed through ESPN's gen AI recap workflow, and then reviewed by editors before publication. Approved recaps are distributed through ESPN.com and the ESPN app to extend coverage across more sports and teams.
"ESPN editors review the content before it is published on ESPN.com and the ESPN app."
"The solution leverages a dataset that includes a combination of ESPN and league-licensed data such as box scores, play-by-play data, rosters, standings and schedule pages, and audio transcripts (where available)."
"Through the power of gen AI, ESPN is scaling the creation and distribution of content to fans across an even wider variety of sports games and moments"
"the use of generative AI (gen AI) to provide coverage of more sports for more fans"
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