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In this paper we introduce our complete solution for captioning of live TV programs used by the Czech Television, the public service broadcaster in the Czech Republic. Live captioning using speech recognition and re-speaking is on the increase and widely used for example in BBC; however, many specific issues have to be solved each time a new captioning system is being put in operation. Our concept of re-speaking assumes a complex integration of re-speaker’s skills, not only verbatim repetition with fully automatic processing. This paper describes the recognition system design with advanced re-speaker interaction, distributed captioning system architecture and neglected re-speaker training. Some evaluation of our skilled re-speakers is presented too.
This paper was supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, project No. TA01011264 and by the grant of The University of West Bohemia, project No. SGS-2010-054.
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Pražák, A., Loose, Z., Trmal, J., Psutka, J.V., Psutka, J. (2012). Captioning of Live TV Programs through Speech Recognition and Re-speaking. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7499. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32790-2_62
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