Project description Language Technologies Show the project objective Hide the project objective Online educational repositories of video lectures are rapidly growing on the basis of increasingly available and standardised infrastructure. A well-known example of this is the VideoLectures web portal, a free and open access educational video lectures repository, and a major player in the development of the widely used Opencast Matterhorn platform for educational video management. As in other repositories, transcription and translation of video lectures in VideoLectures is needed to make them accessible to speakers of different languages and to people with disabilities. However, also as in other repositories, most lectures in VideoLectures are neither transcribed nor translated because of the lack of efficient solutions to obtain them at a reasonable level of accuracy. The aim of transLectures is to develop innovative, cost-effective solutions to produce accurate transcriptions and translations in VideoLectures, with generality across other Matterhorn-related repositories. Our starting hypothesis is that there is only a relatively small gap for the current technology on automatic speech recognition and machine translation to achieve accurate enough results in the kind of audiovisual object collections we are considering. To close this gap, TL will follow two main research lines. First, we will study how to better deal with object variability by massive adaptation of general-purpose models from available lecture-specific knowledge. Second, as we think that accurate enough results are unlikely to be obtained with fully automatic methods alone, we will explore how to better reach the desired levels of accuracy by intelligent interaction with users. On the other hand, it is our goal not end up with a system prototype that is only evaluated at the lab and can hardly be used in real-life settings. Instead, we will develop tools to work with Matterhorn, and thus we will be able to evaluate them in a real-life setting. Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2011.4.2 - Language Technologies Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2011-7 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA Address Camino de vera sn edificio 3a 46022 Valencia Spain See on map Region Este Comunitat Valenciana Valencia/València Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact JOSE ANTONIO PEREZ GARCIA (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all EML SPEECH TECHNOLOGY GMBH Germany EU contribution € 482 646,00 Address Berliner strasse 45 69120 Heidelberg See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Karlsruhe Heidelberg, Stadtkreis Administrative Contact Christina Bölk-Krosta (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Germany EU contribution € 586 666,00 Address Templergraben 55 52062 Aachen See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Städteregion Aachen Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ernst Schmachtenberg (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data XEROX France EU contribution € 586 285,00 Address 33 rue des vanesses immeuble exelmans 93420 Villepinte See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Seine-Saint-Denis Administrative Contact Monica Beltrametti (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data INSTITUT JOZEF STEFAN Slovenia EU contribution € 366 829,00 Address Jamova 39 1000 Ljubljana See on map Region Slovenija Zahodna Slovenija Osrednjeslovenska Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Jadran Lenarcic (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data Deluxe Digital Studios Ltd United Kingdom EU contribution € 197 000,00 Address North orbital road UB9 5HQ Denham See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Panayota Georgakopoulou (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data KNOWLEDGE 4 ALL FOUNDATION LBG United Kingdom EU contribution € 122 984,00 Address High street 36 44 surrey house RH1 1RH Redhill See on map Region South East (England) Surrey, East and West Sussex East Surrey Activity type Other Administrative Contact John Shawe-Taylor (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data
