This study deals with the effectiveness of reading aloud using English TV news to increase number opportunities and improve self-confidence in producing utterances for EFL learners. Reading contents was adopted induce a certain utterances, self-voice recording via smartphones conducted provide an objective perspective on learners’ progress during activity. The data from pre- post-survey quest...

In this paper new ideas and algorithms for adapting the workflow for newscast production are presented. The goal is to enable TV news editors to take advantage of the added facilities offered by digital video techniques. Algorithms for the analysis of MPEG compressed videos are presented. These enable a news editor to extract sequences of key frames from newsfeeds. Newsfeeds consist of assemble...

Individuals who identify changes in their local climate are also more likely to report that they have personally experienced global climate change. One way that people may come to recognize that their local climate is changing is through information provided by local TV weather forecasters. Using random digit dialing, 2,000 adult local TV news viewers in Virginia were surveyed to determine whet...

In the future, everyone will be a news reporter. For a long time, gatekeeping has provided a dominant paradigm for journalistic news gathering and news publishing in the mass media, both for journalists' own conceptualisation of their work and for academic studies of this mediation process. In media such as print, radio, and TV, with their inherent strictures of available column space, air time...

One of the problems in text-to-speech (TTS) systems and speech-to-text (STT) systems is pronunciation estimation of unknown words. In this paper, we propose a method for extracting unknown words and their pronunciations from similar sets of Japanese text data and speech data. Out-of-vocabulary words are extracted from text with a stochastic model and pronunciations hypotheses are generated. The...

This paper describes the Perseus project, which is devoted to developing techniques and tools for creating personalized multimedia news portals. The purpose of a personalized multimedia news portal is to provide relevant information, selected from newswire sites on the Internet and augmented by video clips automatically extracted from TV broadcasts, based on the user’s preferences. To create su...

In this paper an iterative algorithm for extraction of key frames from digitised MPEG-1 compressed newsfeeds is introduced. Newsfeeds consist of assembled news clips transmitted by news agencies. These are usually recorded in analogue form by subscribing TV stations. Editors analyse the video material through a sequential and time intensive search in order to select sequences which can be used ...

Nowadays, Web is characterized by a growing availability of multimedia data together with a strong need for integrating different media and modalities of interaction. Hence, the main goal is to bring into the Web data thought and produced for different media, such as TV or radio content. In this scenario, we focus on multimodal news aggregation retrieval and fusion. In particular, we present pr...