For more info on this live subtitling system, have a look at this paper: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp065.shtml
The live "re-speaking" subtitling system was developed at BBC Research (& Development) down at Kingswood Warren. Cheers, Andrew BBC Research On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:25:49PM +0100, Brendan Quinn wrote: > [just saw jase's post, but dammit I've typed this out now, so I'm posting!] > > Red Bee Media (née BBC Broadcast) does all our subtitling. > > I was having a beer with someone who used to work in their subtitling area > the other day, and got an interesting explanation of how it works. They > actually do use voice recognition systems, but the systems are trained to > recognise only one voice reliably, so the subtitlers spend months and months > in front of the computer saying strange words until the system is trained to > their voice. Then they take short shifts listening to the live broadcast and > repeating any voices they hear into the system, which then magically converts > their speech into text. They can pre-load the system with the types of words > they are likely to hear given the type of show, but with some shows the > subject range can be so diverse that they have to leave the "domain filter" > wide open and thus have less accuracy on word matching. > > Pre-recorded subtitling works differently, obviously -- they can take time to > pause the playout and get it right. Most of these subtitlers are ex-courtroom > steganographers. > > There are a few case studies etc here: > http://www.redbeemedia.com/access/subtitling.shtml > > Someone from RBM might like to chip in here with more explanations, in the > spirit of information sharing... > > Of course, Other Subtitling Providers Are Available (er... I think?!) > > Brendan. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher > Woods > Sent: 26 March 2007 17:53 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics > > Here's a thought regarding subtitling - I know that manual subtitling or > on-the-fly subtitling of live programmes has come along leaps and bounds, > with voice recognition technology (which sometimes kicks up amusing > misunderstandings, but seems to work very well) - how long do you think it'll > be before it's all fully automatic, with the software performing voice > recognition on the actual soundtrack in realtime? After seeing the lip > reading segment on the last Click, it got me thinking... Who does the Beeb's > subs now? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jason Cartwright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 26 March 2007 17:41 > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > > Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics > > > > The annual report designers like big numbers too.. > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/review_report_r > > esearch/bb > > cannualreport.pdf > > > > Lots of boxes saying interesting things like: > > > > "56% of children in Great Britain aged 7-15 accessed bbc.co.uk/CBBC in > > December 2005" > > "91.6% of programming on BBC One was subtitled in 2005/2006" etc etc > > > > J > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher > > Woods > > Sent: 26 March 2007 17:26 > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > > Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC site statistics > > > > Something I noticed earlier today - the BBC News pages show how many > > pages have been served in the past minute, and that cycles round with > > other facts about the site... When I was looking earlier this morning > > (around middayish) it showed over 73,000 pages served THAT MINUTE - > > that's insane! Right now it's saying "82,357 people are reading > > stories on the site right now." > > > > ! > > > > Sometimes I forget just how massive the audience is for the beebnews > > pages... > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Richard Lockwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: 26 March 2007 11:22 > > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > > > Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC site statistics > > > > > > I've always found that the more "technical" or "geeky" a > > site is, the > > > higher %age of non-IE users you'll find. For a consumer > > website - IE > > > all the way. Which goes to prove my point that real people use IE, > > > geeks use Firefox. :-) > > > > > > Yesterday's stats from a (very much consumer-orientated) site that I > > > manage: > > > > > > IE (total) 87.3% > > > made up of: > > > IE 5.5 - 0.1% > > > IE 6 - 40.1% > > > IE 7 - 47.1% > > > Safari - 0.8% > > > Opera - 0.6% > > > FF (all flavours) - 11.3% > > > > > > Not a single hit from anything else. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > R. > > > > > > > > > > > > On 3/26/07, Brian Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Just for the record, I have a UK-focused site, so I have > > > these figures > > > > for March 2007: > > > > > > > > www.ukfree.tv > > > > Internet explorer is 66% of all traffic. > > > > of which 7.0 52% (34.63% of total); 6.0 47% (31.4% of > > total), 5.0 > > > > (0.8% of > > > > total) > > > > (Firefox is 28.78% of total, Opera 1% of total) > > > > > > > > On the OS front, I get Windows NT/XP/Vista: 88%, Mac 4.8%, > > > Windows 98 > > > > 2.85 and XWindows 1.26% > > > > > > > > Hope this is useful too. > > > > > > > > Brian Butterworth > > > > www.ukfree.tv > > > > > > > > > > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > James Cridland > > > > Sent: 25 March 2007 16:57 > > > > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > > > > Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC site statistics > > > > > > > > > > > > On 3/23/07, Allan Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm wondering if anyone knows any of the site statistics > > > for the BBC > > > > > web-sites. In particular what the browser market share > > > is, as I am > > > > > wondering how much longer to support IE5 and 5.5 for > > > certain sites - > > > > > depending on their application and target market. I > > thing the BBC > > > > > site user agent stats would be really interesting in this > > > area, and > > > > > possibly one of the least skewed se of statistics on > > the net for > > > > > typical user agents. > > > > > > > > Not particularly helpful, but > > > > > > > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/newmedia/technical/browser_support.sht > > > > ml#support_table is a useful guide to what the BBC supports > > > and what > > > > it doesn't. > > > > > > > > From the sites I can pull stats from, these are the stats > > > for the last > > > > seven days... > > > > > > > > www.mediauk.com > > > > Internet Explorer: 85% of all traffic of which: 6.0: 59.09%; 7.0: > > > > 39.9%; rest: 1.01% > > > > > > > > james.cridland.net > > > > Internet Explorer: 44% of all traffic of which: 6.0: 60.91%; 7.0: > > > > 38.42%; rest: 0.67% > > > > > > > > www.virginradio.co.uk > > > > Internet Explorer: 85% of all traffic of which: 6.0: > > 62.28% ; 7.0: > > > > 37.14%; rest 0.58% > > > > > > > > Particularly based on the Media UK and Virgin Radio stats, my own > > > > thoughts would therefore be to drop any support for MSIE5 > > > and MSIE5.5. > > > > > > > > Hope that's useful. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > http://james.cridland.net/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.17/731 - Release Date: > > > > 23/03/2007 > > > > 15:27 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > > > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > > > > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.18/733 - Release Date: > > > > 25/03/2007 > > > > 11:07 > > > > > > > - > > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. 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