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Describing online videos with text-to-speech narration

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Most online videos are inaccessible for blind and visually impaired people. Those who are illiterate or barely literate also face difficulties with many videos. An audio description (AD) can help, but is rarely provided for actual online videos because of the time and trouble required. The technology platform we are developing uses a speech synthesis technology to add ADs to online videos at minimal cost. We are developing an authoring tool for AD scripts, a Web browser for playing the described videos, and a text-based format to handle the AD scripts.

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CapScribe, http://capscribe.ca/
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eSpeak, http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
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MAGpie, http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie/
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Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0, http://www.w3.org/TR/speech-synthesis/
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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 3.0), http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/
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    W4A '10: Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)
    April 2010
    223 pages
    ISBN:9781450300452
    DOI:10.1145/1805986
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    1. audio description
    2. external metadata
    3. online videos
    4. speech synthesis
    5. text-to-speech (TTS)
    6. web accessibility

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    • (2023)Machine Generation of Audio Description for Blind and Visually Impaired PeopleACM Transactions on Accessible Computing10.1145/359095516:2(1-28)Online publication date: 24-Jun-2023
    • (2023)Accessibility Research in Digital Audiovisual Media: What Has Been Achieved and What Should Be Done Next?Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences10.1145/3573381.3596159(94-114)Online publication date: 12-Jun-2023
    • (2018)CineAD: a system for automated audio description script generation for the visually impairedUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-018-0634-4Online publication date: 31-Aug-2018
    • (2016)Accessibility in Digital CinemaProceedings of the 22nd Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web10.1145/2976796.2976867(119-126)Online publication date: 8-Nov-2016

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