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Department of Computational Linguistics Language, Technology and Accessibility

Machine Translation of Audio Descriptions

Comparison of audio descriptions in English, German, and Spanish
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Audio description (AD) makes content accessible to blind persons and persons with visual impairments by describing visually relevant actions and features of a movie, series, or similar acoustically (Benecke, 2014). This includes an AD script that is voiced by human speakers or automatically (speech synthesis). Still largely unexplored is the automatic production of the script itself with the aid of computer vision and natural language processing techniques as well as the automatic translation of AD scripts from one language to another (Wang et al., 2021).

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Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (IICT)

More about Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (IICT)

IICT is a four-year project with an overall budget of  12.3 million CHF supported by the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) under its flagship scheme. The goal of the IICT flagship is to develop information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of persons with disabilities. The flagship targets five applications: text simplification, sign language translation, sign language assessment, audio description, and spoken subtitles.