Real Time Subtitling for the Hearing Impaired

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Real Time Subtitlingfor the Hearing Impaired
Experimental TV news respeaking in Italian a
case study

• Carlo Eugeni CETRA 2005

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• Positioning
• Real Time subtitling
• Hearing impaired population

• Reasons

• Thesis

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Subtitling for the Hearing Impaired

• Pre-recorded programme subtitling
• Semi-live subtitling
• Real Time subtitling

• Stenotyping
• -Respeaking

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Stenotyping
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Respeaking
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Respeaking
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Hearing Impaired people

• Causes
• Genetic
• Disease
• Trauma

• Degree
• Mild
• Progressive
• Severe
• Profound
• Tinnitus

• Medical
• Sensorineural
• Conductive
• Combination
• Unilateral
• Pre-lingual
• Post-lingual

• Cultural
• Hard-of-hearing
• Deaf
• deaf

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Why?

• Social reasons
• Legal reasons
• Technological reasons
• Economic reasons
• Opportunistic reasons

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My PhD Thesis

• Guidelines
• 20 hours corpus

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My PhD Thesis

• Italian speaking broadcaster
• Local (D)deaf community
• Daily mailings
• Weekly meetings

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My PhD Thesis

• Analysis of the results
• Final remarks
• Conclusions

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See you in 3 years time!!

• ?

carloeugeni_at_libero.it
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Audiovisual Translation
Dubbing
Subtitling
Inter-lingual subtitling
Intra-lingual subtitling