Towards Live Subtitling of TV Ice-hockey Commentary

Aleš Pražák, Josef V. Psutka, Josef Psutka, Zdeněk Loose

2013

Abstract

This paper deals with live subtitling of TV ice-hockey commentaries using automatic speech recognition technology. Two methods are presented - a direct transcription of a TV program and a re-speaking approach. Practical issues emerging from the real subtitling system are introduced and their solutions are proposed. Acoustic and language modelling is described as well as modifications of existing live subtitling application. Both methods were evaluated during simulated subtitling and their results are discussed.

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Pražák A., Psutka J., Psutka J. and Loose Z. (2013). Towards Live Subtitling of TV Ice-hockey Commentary . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications and 10th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-74-7, pages 151-155. DOI: 10.5220/0004606301510155


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap13,
author={Aleš Pražák and Josef V. Psutka and Josef Psutka and Zdeněk Loose},
title={Towards Live Subtitling of TV Ice-hockey Commentary},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications and 10th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={151-155},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004606301510155},
isbn={978-989-8565-74-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications and 10th International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2013)
TI - Towards Live Subtitling of TV Ice-hockey Commentary
SN - 978-989-8565-74-7
AU - Pražák A.
AU - Psutka J.
AU - Psutka J.
AU - Loose Z.
PY - 2013
SP - 151
EP - 155
DO - 10.5220/0004606301510155