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Breaking the sound barrier

eAccessibility in Television Broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe. 3-4 December 2013 HRT Academy, Zagreb, Croatia Tanja Gombar, B.Sc.E. Breaking the sound barrier. EBU. Breaking the sound barrier. HRT has enabled broadcasting of numerous TV programmes for the hearing imparied

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Breaking the sound barrier

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  1. eAccessibility in Television Broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe 3-4 December 2013 HRT Academy, Zagreb, Croatia Tanja Gombar, B.Sc.E. Breakingthesoundbarrier EBU

  2. Breakingthesoundbarrier • HRT hasenabledbroadcastingofnumerous TV programmes for thehearingimparied • i.e. everyday news, SundayMassandseveralfamilyprogrammes • all foreignprogrammes (films, series, etc.) are subtitled, notsynchronised EBU

  3. Techniques – signlanguage • signlanguagewiththehelpof a presenter • enabledin some ofthe news shows, SundayMassand some familyprogrammes EBU

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  6. Techniques – TTXT subtitling • teletext subtitling, also known as closed subtitling • this means that viewers can choose whether or not to display the subtitles • this data is added into the VBI area EBU

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  8. Techniques – TTXT subtitling • news programmesubtitles are preparedinadvanceandimportedfromiNews • thesubtitles are broadcastedmanually, they are nottriggeredby a time codeand are notautomated • reporting live is notsubtitled • there is a numberofprogrammeswhichhavethepotential to besubtitled, but there is a lackofpeopleandworkspace EBU

  9. Techniques – TTXT subtitling • there are twosubtitlingworkstationsin New Media department • one ofthem is used for immediatesubtitleediting • theother workstation is on-air and is used to manuallybroadcastsubtitles EBU

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  12. Techniques – TTXT subtitling • “real-time speechrecognition” is a systembased on voicerecognition • in Croatia it stilldoesn’t exist • thistypeofsubtitlingcanbeunreliable EBU

  13. Conclusion • although HRT usesseveraltechniques for thehearingimpaired, there is stillroom for improvement • inthe future, wehope to increasethenumberof TTXT subtitledprogrammes EBU

  14. Thankyou for yourattention! EBU

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