4th International Symposium Respeaking, Live Subtitling and Accessibility

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 12 March 2013

9:00-9:15 Welcome and conference opening, Pilar Orero(UAB) 

9:15- 10:00 KEYNOTE LECTUREby Neil Grant(Nuance Communications UK Limited) 

CHAIR: Aline Remael
 

10:00-11:00 PANEL 1: RESEARCH PROJECTS

CHAIR: Carlo Eugeni

  • Alessandro Tescari (PerVoice), “Presentation of EU Bridge project and demo” 
  • Ignasi Barri Vilardell (INDRA), “The e-Access+ Network: enhancing the Take-Up of eAccessibility in Europe”

 

Coffee break

 

11.30- 13:00 PANEL 2: RESPEAKING TRAINING AND PRACTICE 

CHAIR: Pablo Romero Fresco

  • Christian Hattinger(Vienna University of Technology), “Respeaking in Austria: Current state-of-the-art and a developed and evaluated respeaking (scripting) training program” 
  • Carlo Eugeni(Intersteno), “OltreSuoni project: Respeaking in the radio”
  • Estel·la Oncins(CAIAC-UAB), “Speech recognition-based subtitling in film festivals: a case study”

13:00-14:30 PANEL 3: LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN SUBTITLING FOR THE TV

CHAIR: Pilar Orero

  • Andrew Lambourne(Screen Systems), “How to identify and fix the causes of transcription errors”
  • Carlo Aliprandi(SyNTHEMA), “Speech Recognition with a focus for quality Subtittling of minor languages”
  • Lisbet Kvistholm Thrane(University of Copenhagen),“Text-to-speech on Digital TV – A Case Study of Spoken Subtitles on DR1Syn”

Lunch

15:30-17:30 PANEL 4: QUALITY IN RESPEAKING

CHAIR: Gion Linder

  • Pablo Romero-Fresco(University of Roehampton), “Quality and NER in the UK” 
  • Sandra Empereur(Artesis Collage Antwerp), “Testing NER in Flandes”

Coffee break

18:00-19:00 PANEL 5: RESPEAKING IN PUBLIC VENUES 

CHAIR: Albert-Fernández Costales

  • Robin Nachtrab-Ribback(Verbavoice), “Respeaking used to Provide Live – Transcription for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people in schools and at University” 
  • Héctor Delgado andEstel·la Oncins(CAIAC-UAB), “Respeaking live events in minor languages”

POSTERS
 

  • Yota Georgakopoulou andAnja Turner(Deluxe Digital Studios and Titelbild) “SUMAT project” 
  • Yota Georgakopoulou(Deluxe Digital Studios), “TransLectures poster”

19:00-19:30 CLOSING REMARKS by Pilar Orero (UAB)