Objetivo
Millions of visually impaired people throughout Europe regularly watch and enjoy television, even though they are not able to gain as much information from the picture as normally sighted people. The AUDETEL project aims to provide such people with an extra speech channel, along which will be sent information which explains what is happening on the screen, thus filling the gaps in the understanding of the programme that a visually impaired or elderly viewer might otherwise suffer.
By the end of the pilot phase decisions will have been taken on the adequacy of the quality of speech coding system that has been developed, and on the optimum method of transmitting the coded speech along with the television system. Various programmes will have been described, and videotapes of these will have been provided for assessment and publicity purposes. A set of guide- lines for producing audio descriptions will have been compiled. Over-air transmissions using one of the proposed transmission methods (via NICAM) will have been carried out, monitored, and the results evaluated. Standardisation and legislative measures will have begun. Prototype encoders and decoders will have been developed and approaches to cheapening and mass production of decoders will have been examined.
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SO21 2QA Winchester
Reino Unido