Re: fancy way to display captions

Awesome, thanks for the much more scientific links. That's indeed what
I was referring to (that second link was dead-slow for me).
Such studies are interesting to see what requirements we have for
features and what new features can be brought to captioning.

BTW: I don't know why this comes up now, if the paper was given in
2010 - it certainly hit the tech news sites...

Anyway: I like how they employe speech bubbles and current word
highlighting. I don't think the volume indication is good enough with
the bar on the side - it could be done more contextually e.g. by
changing the fontsize or italicize or so.
Cheers,
Silvia.





2012/3/24 Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>:
> Dear Silvia,
>
>
>> Thought you'd be curious to read about this more modern way to display
>> captions with speech bubbles:
>> http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-revolutionize-captioning.html
>>
>> I think WebVTT with CSS3 in HTML5 can support this display. Would be
>> curious to see it work in practice though. ;-)
>
>
> If you're specifically talking about "e) Dynamic Captioning", this article
> refers to a now old research paper, published in ACM 2010 (that actually won
> the best paper award of the conference). The full reference is:
>
> Hong, Richang and Wang, Meng and Xu, Mengdi and Yan, Shuicheng and Chua,
> Tat-Seng. Dynamic Captioning: Video Accessibility Enhancement for Hearing
> Impairment, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1874013 OR
> http://lms.comp.nus.edu.sg/papers/media/2010/mm10-richang.pdf
>
> The authors did a user study with deaf users for comparing the static way of
> captioning and this dynamic way and according to this study, users had a
> clear preference for the latter.
> Best regards.
>
>  Raphaël
>
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