Tech Papers 2025: This paper describes a proof-of-concept approach to monitoring timing errors and word loss in TV subtitles.
Abstract
It reviews previous attempts at subtitle monitoring and the problems caused to viewers by subtitle timing errors and word loss. It then introduces the use of speech to text technology and the conventions in subtitling where repetition, non-speech content and errors can make the task of aligning the speech-to-text transcript to subtitles more challenging. The paper describes ...
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