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Emotive Captioning in a Digital World

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2002)

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Abstract

Traditional closed captioning provides limited bandwidth for verbatim text and sparse background information to reach the viewer. However, the information and richness contained in paralanguage, music, and background sounds is lost to the deaf viewer. The Emotive We are exploring the ways to fill these gaps with the increased bandwidth offered by the newdigital media.

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  1. Centre for Learning Technologies, Ryerson University, Canada

    Charles Silverman & Deborah I. Fels

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  1. SZS — Study Centre for Blind and Partially Sighted Students, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Engesserstr. 4, 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. i3s3 — integrated studying, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Joachim Klaus

  3. i3s3 — integrated studying, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/366-1B, 1040, Wien, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

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Silverman, C., Fels, D.I. (2002). Emotive Captioning in a Digital World. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45491-8_61

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