Automated Closed Captioning and Descriptive Video Compliance at Turner Broadcasting
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- Author(s): K.G. Brady Source: IBC2013 Conference, 2013 page ()
- Conference: IBC2013 Conference
- DOI: 10.1049/ibc.2013.0046
- ISBN: 978-1-84919-926-1
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Conference date: 12-17 Sept. 2013
- Format: PDF
The implementation of the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 by the United States government required major workflow changes for compliance with an extremely short implementation timeline for broadcasters. Turner Broadcasting had 29 networks and close to 100 consumer device applications and websites that were required to provide Closed Captioning and 400 hours of primetime Video Description services per quarter. Verifying and certifying full compliance across this vast landscape was simply too much for traditional manual human tracking alone. Turner embarked on a new approach with some key technology partners using phonetic indexing and comparative speech analysis to automate the process of compliance tracking across the full spectrum of properties that fell under the requirements of the new law. The experiment has now culminated in new product launches for the industry and an ongoing flexible and expandable compliance toolset for Turner.
Inspec keywords: indexing; digital video broadcasting; video communication; speech processing
Subjects: Multimedia communications; Speech and audio signal processing; Radio and television broadcasting
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