抄録
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. We integrated automation technology of closed-captioning and developed semi-practical production system of closed-caption programs. We report the outline of the production system and the result of totally assessment for ability operability of its system.
