This study aimed at investigating the impact of closed-caption program on listening comprehension of English movies and vocabulary learning. Sixty-four graduate students studying at Shiraz Islamic Azad University were selected as the participants of the study. The participants were divided into two groups: experimental group (with closed caption program) and control group (without closed captio...

The production of closed captions is an important but expensive process in video broadcasting. We propose a method to generate highly accurate off-line captions efficiently. Our system uses text alignment to synchronize program transcripts obtained for a video program with text produced by an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. We will also describe the accuracy in both closed-caption te...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules impose obligations on broadcasters for captioning of digital television (DTV) programs, but there has been some uncertainty over exactly what is required. This paper sets out the main requirements defined by the FCC rules, summarizes what broadcasters should be doing to meet those requirements, and provides guidance on implementing the various l...

Vast volumes of digital video data are generated recently in our daily life. One of the most challenging problems is classifying and retrieving the desired information from huge collections of digital video. Consequently, the closed caption text has been utilized as an alternative to enhance the video retrieval and classification. Some systems are designed based on English closed caption howeve...

This paper investigates the problem of efficiently describing broadcasted sports videos for effective multimedia applications. Considering the sports videos as a sequence of recurrent semantic story units, we propose a method for segmenting the sports videos into the story units and attaching the closed-caption segments, which correspond to the story units, as the detailed descriptions. This pr...

This study investigated the effects of captioned texts on second/foreign (L2) listening comprehension and vocabulary gains using a computer multimedia program. Additionally, it explored the caption ordering effect (i.e. captions displayed during the first or second listening), and the interaction of captioning order with the L2 proficiency level of language learners in listening comprehension a...

Sports videos can be characterized as a sequence of recurrent semantic story units. Storing sports videos in this story-unit-based form will lead to develop an intelligent content-based retrieval, browsing, and summarization system. The storage requires segmentation of videos and semantic understanding of each segment. Since transcribed broadcasted video speech, the closed-caption text, can be ...

The components of a key frame selection algorithm for a paper-based multimedia browsing interface called Video Paper are described. Analysis of video image frames is combined with the results of processing the closed caption to select key frames that are printed on a paper document together with the closed caption. Bar codes positioned near the key frames allow a user to play the video from the...

Este artículo presenta un análisis del Closed Caption de producto audiovisual con alternancia código entre los idiomas inglés y español, el objetivo identificar las situaciones en que sucede este fenómeno, modo se trata audio original, así como la manera traslada a subtítulos (CC). Para ello, describen primero algunos aspectos teóricos respecto Traducción Audiovisual, modalidad especializada tr...