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Zdeněk Hanzlíček and Jindřich Matoušek and Daniel Tihelka : Towards automatic audio track generation for Czech TV broadcasting: Initial experiments with subtitles-to-speech synthesis . Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP '08, vol. 3, p. 2721-2724, IEEE Press, Beijing, China, 2008.

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In this paper, the project “Elimination of the Language Barriers Faced by the Handicapped Watchers of the Czech Television” aimed at making Czech TV broadcasting available to a broader group of TV watchers is introduced. More specifically, the problems of the automatic audio track generation within the project are mentioned. As the audio track will be produced from subtitles, text-to-speech (TTS) technology will be utilised. Several versions of a TTS system planned to produce the audio track are described. In this paper, the main attention is paid to the analysis of synchronicity between subtitles and the synthetic speech. Problems with fitting synthetic speech into the predefined subtitles slots were revealed – for more than 44 % of all subtitles, the synthetic speech overlapped the slots. So, great care will have to be taken to produce speech at faster rates when customising our TTS system for the task of generating audio tracks from subtitles.

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Title: Towards automatic audio track generation for Czech TV broadcasting: Initial experiments with subtitles-to-speech synthesis
Author: Zdeněk Hanzlíček ; Jindřich Matoušek ; Daniel Tihelka
Language: English
Date of publication: 1 Oct 2008
Year: 2008
Type of publication: Papers in proceedings of reviewed conferences
Book title: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP '08
Číslo vydání: 3
Page: 2721 - 2724
ISBN: 978-1-4244-2178-7
Publisher: IEEE Press
Address: Beijing, China
Date: 26 Oct 2008 - 26 Nov 2008
2008-11-06 09:42:29 / 2009-01-14 13:59:25 /

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subtitles, subtitles-to-speech synthesis, ELJABR project

BibTeX

@INPROCEEDINGS{ZdenekHanzlicek_2008_Towardsautomatic,
 author = {Zden\v{e}k Hanzl\'{i}\v{c}ek and Jind\v{r}ich Matou\v{s}ek and Daniel Tihelka},
 title = {Towards automatic audio track generation for Czech TV broadcasting: Initial experiments with subtitles-to-speech synthesis},
 year = {2008},
 publisher = {IEEE Press},
 address = {Beijing, China},
 volume = {3},
 pages = {2721-2724},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Signal Processing, ICSP '08},
 ISBN = {978-1-4244-2178-7},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/ZdenekHanzlicek_2008_Towardsautomatic},
}