EMOTIONAL SUBTITLES: A SYSTEM AND POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS FOR DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED PEOPLE

Conference and Workshop on Assistive Technologies for People with Vision and Hearing Impairments: Assistive Technology for All Ages

James Ohene-Djan ; Jenny Wright ; Kirsty Combie-Smith

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PID  :  25050

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Many Deaf and Hearing Impaired people use subtitles to gain access to audio content on television and film presentations.Although subtitles tell the viewer what is being said they fail tocommunicate how it is being said. This “emotional gap” experienced by viewer’s highlights asignificant drawback to current subtitling especially when used for learning by the Deaf. In this paper we introduce a system that demonstrates the presentation of subtitles that depict theemotions behind the words used on screen. The system also provides viewers with the ability topersonalize and adapt their interaction with subtitles, so as to assist them in their learning.Using this system we hope to conduct a series of surveys looking at how people receive and usesubtitles.In conducting this research we aim to gain a comprehensive understanding of the issuesassociated with emotional subtitling and to provide guidance for future producers of subtitledmaterials.