{"id":11118,"date":"2016-04-01T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voice-interaction.com\/tmp-web\/automatic-methods-for-live-closed-captioning-nabshow-2016\/"},"modified":"2020-02-10T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T19:11:31","slug":"automatic-methods-for-live-captioning-nabshow-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voice-interaction.com\/tmp-web\/us\/automatic-methods-for-live-captioning-nabshow-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Methods for Live Closed Captioning @ NAB Show 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

As another NAB SHOW<\/em> approaches, VoiceInteraction<\/em> prepares to unveil the latest developments of its solutions for the Broadcasting, Media & Entertainment Industries, with special emphasis on AUDIMUS.MEDIA<\/em>, a Fully-Automatic System for Live Captioning of Audiovisual Contents.<\/p>\n

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NAB SHOW 2016<\/em> will be held in Las Vegas, NV, April 18-21, 2016. Join us at booth SU1621, South Hall (Upper).<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

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Why Live Closed Captioning Matters<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

The community’s increasing awareness about the need for policies to ensure everyone equal opportunities and access to information and knowledge has led to the creation of rules imposing requirements on TV broadcasters to provide their contents in alternative ways, such as sign language and\/or closed captioning. Because closed captioning proved to be useful in a broader range of circumstances — e.g. captions has been explored in language acquisition; closed captioning enables people to watch (and understand) TV programmes in noisy (shopping centers) or quiet (hospitals) public places –, broadcasters have turned attention to this alternative content description as a means to reach a wider audience. Closed captioning, though, is costly and (human) resource-intensive. Automatic tools producing high-quality results at affordable costs have, thus, been researched for years. Before fully automated approaches come into existence, solutions like re-speaking<\/em> — in which an individual (re-speaker)<\/em> listens to the audio track and dictates (verbatim or a summary of) the content to a speech-to-text conversion system adapted to his\/her voice characteristics — was the most cost-effective captioning method.<\/p>\n

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Automatic Live Closed Captioning<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

VoiceInteraction<\/em> – Speech Processing Technologies, S.A.<\/em> pioneered the use of speaker-independent voice recognition technology in real-time, live closed-captioning of broadcast contents through AUDIMUS.MEDIA<\/em>, a fully automatic closed captioning system<\/em> that, in addition to transcribing the spoken utterances, segments them according to the speaker holding the turn. The system builds on the capability of VoiceInteraction<\/em>‘s speech transcription technology to operate faster than real time (i.e. transcribes speech faster than playback time) with speaker-independent models and very large vocabularies.<\/i><\/p>\n

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What to expect from us at the NAB SHOW 2016<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

This year\u2019s event will be used for the global launch of its screenplay time-coding solution<\/i><\/strong>, built to allow Media & Entertainment<\/em> professionals to go a step further in automating the building of post-production scripts. Apart from that, VoiceInteraction will showcase its Media Monitoring System,<\/em> with special emphasis on the Broadcast Edition of it, devoted to accommodate the specific needs of TV broadcasters and Government departments (regulatory agencies). It will be certainly worthwhile attending our demos of the latest version of AUDIMUS.MEDIA — a fully-automatic closed captioning system <\/em><\/em>that, besides transcribing the spoken utterances, segments them according to the speaker holding the turn — building on the integration of deep-learning techniques in our speech processing technologies to optimize the performance of acoustic models derived from the ever-growing speech repositories.<\/p>\n

In addition to watching the demos available at our booth, our visitors will have the opportunity to gain some insight into a broader range of proven speech processing solutions, such as Speech Transcription Systems<\/i> for court, medical, parliament and council proceedings, TTS<\/i> and ASR Engines<\/i> for IVRs and Speech Analytics in Call Centers, and Embodied Conversational Agents<\/i> for multi-modal applications. We are looking forward to receiving your visit at our booth SU1621<\/strong> (South Hall Upper 1621, Brazil\u2019s Pavilion). If you wish to schedule a meeting during the event for more thorough discussions with Prof. Jo\u00e3o Neto, CEO <\/em>of VoiceInteraction, please, send us a Meeting Request to the email nabshow2016@voiceinteraction.tv<\/a><\/p>\n

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About NAB<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

NAB SHOW is the world\u2019s biggest annual conference and exhibition in the area of production, management and delivery of audiovisual contents. With more than 98,000 attendees from 150 countries and 1,700+ exhibitors, the event will be held at the Convention Center of Las Vegas, from April 18 to April 21, 2016, and is organized by National Association of Broadcasters.<\/p>\n

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About VoiceInteraction<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

VoiceInteraction was created in 2008 as a technological spin-off from the INESC-ID, Lisbon, providing cutting-edge speech synthesis technology for building customized voices to accommodate the branding needs of its clients and speaker-independent speech recognition technology that paved the way for the development of a fully-automatic live captioning system for the broadcasting and media production industries, in addition to broadcast monitoring solutions devoted to automate workflows of clipping service providers.<\/p>\n

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