The ALST Project: Technologies for Audio Description
Anna Matamala · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · 2016
Matamala describes the ALST project, which aims to research the implementation of three technologies (speech recognition, machine translation and speech synthesis) in two audiovisual transfer modes (voice-over and audio description). Matamala focuses on the experiments related to audio description within the ALST project: firstly, tests in which speaker diarization and speech recognition systems were used to generate an audio description transcript; secondly, experiments in which the effort involved in creating, translating and post-editing an audio description were compared and, finally, tests in which end users assessed audio descriptions created using a text-to-speech system. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.