The Second Research Report for Production Technology of Closed-Caption TV Programs for The Hearing Impaired

Abstract

The Telecommunications Advancement Organization (TAO) of Japan, has initiated a project in which electronically available text of TV news programs is summarized and synchronized with the speech and video automatically, then superimposed on the original programs for the benefit of the hearing impaired people in Japan. The project started in 1996 and will end in 2001. We reported the main research issues and the result of preliminary research last year. This report describes the recent results of our research for technology of producing closed captions for TV programs.