Live Subtitling 2020

7th International Symposium Live Subtitling and Accessibility
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 5th and 6th November 2020 (on-line)

Welcome and conference opening, Pilar Orero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Keynote speakers

• “Automatic Speech Recognition for Captioning Lectures”
  Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto University)
   
• “Real Time Communication Accessibility: User Needs and Requirements”
  Joshue O Connor (W3C/WAI)

• “Live web streaming with subtitles: Challenges, lessons, and new ideas” 
  Richard Gatarski  (Westream U AB)

PANEL 1: INTRALINGUAL LIVE SUBTITLING NEW CONTEXTS

CHAIR: GION LINDER, SwissTXT AG

• “The Road Map for Live Subtitling and Respeaking in Turkey” 
  Ebru Kanık and Sirin Okyayuz (Bilkent University).

• “Measuring the quality of intralingual respeaking at live events”
  Zoe Moores (University of Roehampton).

• “Automatic for the People” 
  Tom Wootton (Red Bee Media).

• “Automatic Galician Subtitles: Towards the Creation of a Live Subtitling Tool” 
  María Rico-Vázquez (GALMA, Universidade de Vigo), Laura Docío Fernández and Carmen García Mateo (GTM research group, AtlanTTic Research Center, Universidade de Vigo).  

• “Assessing live subtitling quality across languages and cultures: Internationalisation vs national adaptation of the NER model” 
  Pablo Romero-Fresco (Universidade de Vigo) and Nazaret Fresno (University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley).

PANEL 2: EMERGING AREAS: HYBRID FORMS AND INTERLINGUAL LIVE SUBTITLING.
CHAIR: PABLO ROMERO-FRESCO, Universidade de Vigo.

• “LTA project: Live Parliamentary Subtitling – between Accessibility and Reporting” 
  Carlo Eugeni (Intersteno).

• “Live Subtitling Practices for the TV in the Valencian Community, Spain” 
  María López Rubio (Universitat de València).

• “Interlingual subtitling with and without an interpreter; a respeaker’s perspective” 
  Evan Dorrestein (Subtext Language & Media).
   
• “Real-time interlingual speech-to-text via speech recognition: mapping the field of a surging accessibility service” 
  Elena Davitti (University of Surrey), Hayley Dawson (University of Surrey), Louise Fryer (University of Surrey) and Zoe Moores (University of Surrey).

PANEL 3: LIVE ACCESSIBILITY NEW CONTEXTS
CHAIR: CARLO EUGENI, Intersteno.

• “Drawing with sounds: amplifying the sonic experience delivered through audio description for visually impaired film audiences” 
  Cesar Portillo (University of West London).

• “Remote live real-time audio description: science fiction, technological dream or the new reality?” 
  Ana Julia Perrotti Garcia (Universidade de São Paulo).

• “To Hear, to See, to Read: How Surtitles Influence the Contemporary Operatic Landscape” 
  Aleksandra Ożarowska (University of Warsaw).

PANEL 4: NEW PLATFORMS AND USER NEEDS
CHAIR: PILAR ORERO, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

• “Project Helios: The Anonymous multilingual citizen journalist (CJ)” 
  Robin Ribback (SwissTXT AG).

• “One app fits all: Real time personalised accessibility services”
  Fran Fura and Pedro Lorente (IGLOR).

• “Doing it for ourselves: Conversion towards online meetings in organisations of persons with disabilities during the Corona crisis” 
  Mia Ahlgren (Swedish Disability Rights Federation).

• “A new framework to produce 360º subtitles in real time“
  Chris Hughes (University of Salford) and Mar Brescia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

CLOSING REMARKS 

Pilar Orero (UAB), Gion Linder (SwissTXT AG), Carlo Eugeni (Intersteno), Pablo Romero-Fresco (Universisade de Vigo).