Comparison survey on speaker and music captions as non-speech information in movie captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing in Japanese and English

Abstract

We have conducted a basic survey on non-speech information (NSI) subtitles in Japanese and English of a movie (GODZILLA, 2014), and found Japanese NSI subtitles include many speaker identification, 1.66 times more than English, while English subtitles have a good amount of other types of NSI such as sound effects with relatively smaller number of speaker identification subtitles.