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With best regard's Chetan Kumar. My Skype ID: chetansagar7 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jacob Kruger To: NAPSA Blind Cc: BlindZA Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:42 PM Subject: [blindza] Making movies and TV accessible using TTS technology -----Original Message----- From: Divyanshu Ganatra [email protected] Making movies and documentaries accessible using Text to speech technology. Background and Rationale: Individuals with blindness and low vision have very limited access to visual media such as movies and documentaries. These need to be described or narrated, to make them accessible. Availability of this kind of material is very limited and almost non-existent in regional languages. Individuals with blindness and low vision are almost unable to watch any foreign film, since not only are they not described, but the subtitles can't be read aloud. Making video's accessible today, is quite costly, and time consuming. Given the target population it may not always be commercially viable for the makers to justify the costs. Solution: (Note: see below for links to download sample narrated short animated film, by Pixar.) Making foreign films accessible: Most blind and persons with low vision, use screen reading software to access their computers and the internet. Every computer today running Microsoft windows comes with a free text to speech (TTS) engine, which can read aloud any given text into spoken English. The KM player, is a versatile open source media player which can be downloaded here: http://kmplayer.kde.org/ It can play any media file, and has the in built feature of reading text from subtitle files aloud, using the Microsoft TTS engine. One can also install other TTS engines available on the market for better TTS quality. These TTS engines can also read out foreign text and speak them in various other languages besides English. Download the subtitles for any film easily in any language of choice. These are available free of charge on the internet. Video description and narrated movies: Using the same feature of KM player, that is the ability to read out text from the subtitle file, using a TTS engine. A subtitle file can easily be created, with text only appearing when something needs to be described or narrated for the blind or people with low vision. This method of making video material accessible is much more cost effective, less time consuming, and can make the videos accessible in whichever language one can find a TTS. Sample demonstration: We have created just one such sample demonstration so that you can yourself test the immense potential of this project. We narrated an Oscar winning animated film by Pixar, called 'For the birds". Synopsis of the film: One by one, a flock of small birds perches on a telephone wire. Sitting close together has problems enough, and then comes along a large dopey bird that tries to join them. The birds of a feather cant help but make fun of him-and their clique mentality proves embarrassing in the end. What has gone into making this film accessible: 1. KM player 2. TTS engine from Ivona Jennifer, and Loquendo Simon. 3. A Text file with the narration. Download: Sample 1- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3830724/TTS-videoDiscriptionProject/for%20the%20bird s%20simon.wav Sample 2- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3830724/TTS-videoDiscriptionProject/for%20the%20bird s%20jennifer.wav You will only need media player to play these files. They have been recorded in .wav format in real time. The original file is available here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ4Nnr0MXKY Appreciate your Feedback, comments or suggestions. You're also welcome to the video and text file with the narration in case you wish to take KM player for a test drive. Contact Information: Divyanshu Ganatra E-mail: [email protected] Mobile:09890993825 Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
