This paper deals with a presentation of an experimental system (called WebSubDub) for creating a high-quality alternative audio track for TV broadcasting. The system is used to create subtitles for TV shows in such a format which allows to automatically generate an alternative audio track with multiple voices employing a specially adapted TTS system. This alternative audio track is intended for televiewers with slight hearing impairments, i.e. for a group of televiewers who encounter issues when perceiving the original audio track — especially dialogues with background music, background noise or emotional speech. The system was developed in cooperation with Czech television, the public service broadcaster in the Czech Republic.
Cite as: Grůber, M., Matoušek, J., Hanzlíček, Z., Vít, J., Tihelka, D. (2017) WebSubDub — Experimental System for Creating High-Quality Alternative Audio Track for TV Broadcasting. Proc. Interspeech 2017, 3423-3424
@inproceedings{gruber17_interspeech,
author={Martin Grůber and Jindřich Matoušek and Zdeněk Hanzlíček and Jakub Vít and Daniel Tihelka},
title={{WebSubDub — Experimental System for Creating High-Quality Alternative Audio Track for TV Broadcasting}},
year=2017,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2017},
pages={3423--3424}
}