Application trials for the realization of human-friendly broadcasting
E. Miyasaka, A. Imai, T. Takagi, T. Imai, A. Ando
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AbstractThis paper describes some application systems developed to present human-friendly broadcasting services for the elderly, who at times have difficulty following rapid speech, and for the hearing impaired. These systems include a real-time speech rate converter for the former and a real-time transcription system for the simultaneous subtitling of Japanese broadcast news programs for the latter. In the conversion system the listener can change the speech rate at any time. The pitch of the converted speech is the same as that of the original speech, and its quality suffers little or no impairment. The results of listening tests by elderly observers show that the converted speech, with a slower speech rate than normal, is perceptually preferred. The other system is based on a unique continuous speech recognition system developed by our group. It has been successfully applied to two actual NHK news programs since March 2000.Keywords: speech recognition; subtitling; speech rate; hearing impaired; audibility
E. Miyasaka, A. Imai, T. Takagi, T. Imai, A. Ando (2001). Application trials for the realization of human-friendly broadcasting. Gerontechnology, 1(2), 103-110
https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2001.01.02.003.00