Demonstration Paper at SLPAT 2013 (Grenoble, France, 21–22 August, 2013)

The idea of the demonstration was to suggest that visual subtitles are easier to generate and are more powerful in terms of making audio assessable to the hearing impaired.

Abstract: We present a visual aid for the hearing impaired to enable access to internet videos. The visual tool is in the form of a time synchronized lip movement corresponding to the speech in the video which is embedded in the original internet video. Conventionally, access to the audio or speech, in a video, by the hearing impaired is provided by means of either text subtitles or sign language gestures by an interpreter. The proposed tool would be beneficial, especially in situations where such aids are not readily available or generating such aids is difficult. We have conducted a number experiments to determine the feasibility and usefulness of the proposed visual aid

  • English
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  • Non-English

Videos Submitted for review.

The video (a part of the original video from easy vocab) is divided into three parts. The initial portion of the video has text subtitles and audio; the second portion has no audio and the third portion contains the proposed visual subtitles.

  1. [Demo] Shows a short Vedic Math lecture audio
  2. [Demo] Shows a short video story with text subtitles and audio

La updated: August 28, 2013.