{"id":2558,"date":"2015-09-01T20:17:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.voiceinteraction.tv\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2018-03-23T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T12:28:54","slug":"automatic-live-subtitling-solutions-ibc-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voice-interaction.com\/tmp-web\/automatic-live-subtitling-solutions-ibc-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic solutions for live closed captioning @ IBC 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

VoiceInteraction will once again have a strong presence at IBC in Amsterdam, September 11-15, \u00a02015, showcasing its innovative solutions for Television Broadcasters and Media Content Producers\u00a0at\u00a0booth 14.H18.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Why Live Closed Captioning Matters<\/h3>\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)\u00a0TV programmes in noisy (shopping centers) or quiet (hospitals)\u00a0public 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\u00a0fully automated approaches come into existence, solutions like re-speaking<\/em> — in which an individual\u00a0(re-speaker)<\/em>\u00a0listens to the audio track and dictates (verbatim or a summary of) the content to a\u00a0speech-to-text conversion system adapted to his\/her voice characteristics — was the most resource-effective captioning method.<\/p>\n

Automatic Live Closed Captioning<\/h3>\n

VoiceInteraction<\/em>\u00a0– 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, a fully automatic closed captioning\u00a0system <\/em><\/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\u00a0faster than real time with speaker-independent models and very large vocabularies.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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What to expect from us at IBC 2015<\/h3>\n

VoiceInteraction will showcase the Fourth generation<\/em> of AUDIMUS.MEDIA — 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 –, and our Media Monitoring System<\/em> (an integrated solution for video recording, storage and retrieval, comprising real-time tools for automatic transcription, segmentation and topic indexing of TV contents), with special emphasis on its Broadcast Edition, devoted to accommodate the specific needs of TV broadcasters and Government departments, such as the Legal Recording<\/em> with loudness history graphs.<\/p>\n

In addition to watching the demos available at our booth, our visitors\u00a0will have the opportunity to gain some insight into a\u00a0broader 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 Centres, and Embodied Conversational Agents<\/i> for multi-modal applications.\u00a0We are looking forward to receiving your visit at our booth 14.H18<\/strong>\u00a0in Hall 14. 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\u00a0ibc2015@voiceinteraction.tv<\/a><\/p>\n

About IBC<\/h3>\n

IBC is a long-established annual event where more than 1,500 companies show the latest innovations and specialist technologies in electronic media and entertainment across 14 Halls. IBC will be held at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, from 9\/11 to 9\/15.<\/p>\n

About VoiceInteraction<\/h3>\n

VoiceInteraction was created in 2008 as a technological spin-off from the INESC-ID, Lisbon, providing cutting-edge speech recognition<\/i> technology, such as an online speaker-independent speech transcription system that has led to the creation of fully automatic live subtitling systems for TV broadcasters and media monitoring solutions for clipping service providers,\u00a0 in addition to speech synthesis<\/i> technology for building customized voices to accommodate the branding needs of its clients.<\/p>\n

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