Objective 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. Programme(s) HS-TIDE 0 - Technology initiative for disabled and elderly people - TIDE pilot action, 1991- Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Independent Television Commission EU contribution No data Address Crawley Court SO21 2QA Winchester United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Finnish Central Federation of the Visually Handicapped Finland EU contribution No data Address Makarankatu 50 00810 Helsinki See on map Total cost No data Independent Television Association Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Knighton House 52-66 Mortimer Street W1N 8AN London See on map Total cost No data National Transcommunications Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Crawley Court SO21 2QA Winchester See on map Total cost No data RE Technology AS Denmark EU contribution No data Address Emdrupvej 26 2100 Kobenhavn O See on map Total cost No data Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address 224 Great Portland Street W1N 6AA London See on map Total cost No data SELECO SPA Italy EU contribution No data Address VIALE TREVISO 15 33170 PORDENONE See on map Total cost No data SPEKA Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address University of Surrey GU2 5XH Guildford See on map Total cost No data University of Manchester United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Oxford Road M13 9PL Manchester See on map Total cost No data
