Hello, I had posted this information here on this list sometime back. havent heard from anyone yet. Appreciate feedback Divyanshu
On 6/15/11, chetan kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > hi list, > hope everyone would be rocking! > > i got this information from another group, hope it may helpful for someone. > > > > 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 > > 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
