The Pilot B deals with alternative audio production and distribution:
Given EU citizen mobility, TV content is not only seen by nationals, but also by large communities living away from home. There is also a need to broadcast the same content in different languages synchronically (e.g., Swiss TV or Brussels TV) but the content is not the same across languages. Especially for hearing-impaired people the dialog intelligibility of TV audio signals is a key criterion. Also people with vision disabilities can be supported by an additional audio channel, containing a description of the action mixed with the dialogue.
Pilot-B objectives
The three core objectives of this sub-pilot respond to the above chances and challenges which will be tackled in large scale trials in Germany and Spain.
1- Personalized Clean Audio service via IP for certain groups (deaf and hard of hearing);
2- Automatically generated speech synthesis of audio description and spoken subtitles;
3- Additional audio channels via IP as resources for multi-language transmission as well as language learning and acquisition.