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[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]Sub-project 4 (SP4) of the IICT Flagship focuses on the automatic generation of audio descriptions and lower third voices.<\/p>\n

Audio description is a technique used to make television programs more accessible to people with visual impairments. It involves a voice-over that describes non-spoken scenes in detail to ensure a better understanding of what is happening on screen. The lower third voice (or ‘synth\u00e9’) is an audio commentary, commonly used to provide complementary information to narrative elements (e.g., reading on-screen text). These operations prove to be very time-consuming for human users.<\/p>\n

The Icare research institute is involved in implementing various approaches based on specialized algorithms, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to automate these tasks. This means automatically extracting visual information, generating a textual description, and storing the result in a structured computer file. This file can then be synthetically vocalized so that the viewer can access the information.<\/p>\n

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