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. This report describes the recent results of our research for technology of producing closed captions for TV programs, especially production of various closed-captions for testing and preliminary assessment of caption display methods.
