Project description SME initiative on Digital Content and Languages Show the project objective Hide the project objective Due to recently approved European and National directives and laws, the subtitling demand has grown fast in the past few years throughout Europe. The path of manual subtitling is no longer feasible, due to the quantity of the demand and the cost of the process, both in terms of time and personnel. As a result, broadcasters and subtitling companies are seeking for subtitling alternatives more productive than the traditional manual process. Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) is proving to be a useful technology for such a purpose. Respeaking – a technique in which a professional listens to the source audio and re-speaks it to a speech recognition engine which transcribes it – is consolidating as the main subtitling technique employed for live and pre-recorded broadcast productions. Another trend in use today is the application of speech recognition to automatically generate a transcript of a programme's soundtrack without the need of a respeaker, and to use this as the basis of subtitles. Unfortunately, the high cost associated to the collection and annotation of the speech and text corpora required to train each LVCSR system for respeaking and/or automatic transcription has hindered the development of new languages and application domains. However, in order to comply with the new audiovisual legal framework, European broadcasters and subtitling companies are generating speech and text corpora suitable for LVCSR developments on a daily basis. SAVAS aims to acquire, share and reuse audiovisual resources of broadcasters and subtitling companies so that high-tech European ASR companies can use the shared data to develop domain specific LVCSRs and/or LVCSRs in new languages to solve the automated subtitling needs of the media industry. Within the project, data and LVCSR technology for automated subtitling will be collected, shared and developed for the following six languages: Basque, Spanish, Italian, French, German and Portuguese. Fields of science social scienceslaw Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2011.4.1 - SME initiative on Digital Content and Languages Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2011-SME-DCL See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator FUNDACION CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIAS DE INTERACCION VISUAL Y COMUNICACIONES VICOMTECH EU contribution € 444 801,00 Address PASEO MIKELETEGI PARQUE TECNOLOGICO DE MIRAMON 57 20009 Donostia San Sebastian Spain See on map Region Noreste País Vasco Gipuzkoa Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Ainhoa Aliaga (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all SWISS TXT AG Switzerland EU contribution € 100 794,00 Address ALEXANDER SCHONI STRASSE 40 2501 Biel Bienne See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Espace Mittelland Bern / Berne Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Gion Linder (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data MIXER SERVICIOS AUDIOVISUALES SL Spain EU contribution € 140 904,00 Address CALLE CAPUCHINOS DE BASURTU 48013 BILBAO See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Juan Ma Gurrutxaga Arruza (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data EUSKAL TELEBISTA TELEVISION VASCA SA Spain EU contribution € 100 200,00 Address BASURTUKO KAPUTXINOEN KALEA 48013 BILBAO See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Mikel Frutos (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data RAI-RADIOTELEVISIONE ITALIANA SPA Italy EU contribution € 98 121,00 Address VIALE MAZZINI 14 00195 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Stefania Cinque (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data SYNTHEMA S.R.L. 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