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COMPUTER ASSISTED CLOSED CAPTIONNING
Computer Assisted Closed Captionning technologies support the analysis, access, understanding and repurposing of digital media such as audio and video.
This suite of software products simplifies the creation of captions and subtitles for TV, movies and videos. It automatically detects dialogue and shot boundaries, and allows on-line audio and video-clip browsing. It provides a template for captioners to work from and removes much of the tedium of the captioning process.
The system cuts costs, speeds up work flow and reduces training time for captioners. Under new Australian legislation, a good deal of prime time TV will have to be captioned for the benefit of people with hearing problems. The new software could play an important role in countries where similar legislation is in place.
Mountains of information are now stored in digital form, as images, text, video, audio and hypermedia. And every moment of every day, new digital material is created to add to the pile.
Making sense this vast volume of digital content by editing, captionning and subtitling is rapidly moving beyond the capacity of even the most skilled operators. It takes talent, training and time to identify the right content from a mass of material, particularly 'on the fly', and then to edit and compose it.
CSIRO's experts in digital media information systems have pushed ahead with technologies which help editors 'repurpose' digital material in this way. Working within the Advanced Computational Systems Co-operative Research Centre (ACSys), and with high tech company MediaWare Solutions, they are developing software to support analysis, access, understanding and repurposing of continuous time-based digital media.
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Computer assisted closed captionning - sample screen.
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