Subtitling is a useful technique to fulfil the information needs of deaf and hearing impaired people. Live subtitling is needed especially for live events and is not restricted to television, but can also be provided to persons on site, e.g. to a deaf politician during a parliamentary debate. Live subtitling is demanding since the audio information has to be transformed into text within a few s...

This paper describes the data collection, annotation and sharing activities carried out within the FP7 EU-funded SAVAS project. The project aims to collect, share and reuse audiovisual language resources from broadcasters and subtitling companies to develop large vocabulary continuous speech recognisers in specific domains and new languages, with the purpose of solving the automated subtitling ...

Audiovisual material accompanied by interlingual subtitles is a powerful pedagogical tool which can help improve the vocabulary learning of second-language learners. This study was intended to determine whether or not the mode (standard and reversed) of subtitling affects the incidental vocabulary acquisition of Iranian L2 learners while watching TV programs. Forty-five participants were random...

We present a modular video subtitling platform that integrates speech/non-speech segmentation, speaker diarisation, language identification, Dutch speech recognition with state-of-the-art acoustic models and language models optimised for efficient subtitling, appropriate preand postprocessing of the data and alignment of the final result with the video fragment. Moreover, the system is able to ...

to investigate the effect of three modes of subtitling on vocabulary recognition, 97 participants in three groups at imam khomeini international university in qazvin were presented with the same film but using different ways of subtitling. to compare the participants' vocabulary recognition, a one-way anova was run. results indicated that although the difference between the bimodal and sta...

This paper presents the results of a preliminary experiment and a main test within the HBB4ALL project that aimed to determine whether automatic interlingual and intralingual subtitling help to better understand news content. Results tend to indicate that the usefulness of automatic subtitling correlates with the participants’ English level, enhancing comprehension only in certain groups.

Subtitling of live broadcast news is a very important application to meet the needs of deaf and hard of hearing people. However, live subtitling is a high cost operation in terms of qualification human resources and thus, money if high precision is desired. Automatic Speech Recognition researchers can help to perform this task saving both time and money developing systems that delivers subtitle...

This paper presents an ongoing research project that involves the compilation and exploitation of the multimedia corpus of subtitled films Veiga as a method to investigate the practice of English intralingual subtitling and English-Galician interlingual subtitling. Our project draws on recent work in corpus-based translation studies and its applications in the field of audiovisual translation a...

This article presents an overview of the main findings of an interdisciplinary research project carried out by scholars from a department of translation and interpreting, a department of communication science and a department of linguistics. The project investigated Dutch open subtitling of native speakers of either northern Dutch or a Flemish (regional) variant of Dutch on Flemish television. ...

Recent advances in technology have led to the availability of powerful speech recognizers at low cost and to the possibility of using speech interaction in a variety of new and exciting practical applications. The purpose of this research was to investigate and develop the use of speech recognition in live television subtitling. This paper describes how the “SpeakTitle” project met the challeng...