8-3 The Third 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 made into closed captions 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 result of our research for technology of automatic producing closed captions for TV programs and formal assessment of caption display method.