Re: video / audio transcripts

John,

in my opinion the best approach is to provide for subtitled video content,
with seperate audio tracks available to incorporate description, and a text
equivalent track for the description. You then want to be able to provide the
text equivalent tracks merged into a single text presentation. SMIL, an XML
language for the text equivalents, and XSLT for transforming the equivalents
into a "complete text transcript" or providing one or the other as a static
document would be good approaches. (You may find that the best thing to do
with the text equivalents is to have them in XML as a base, and transform
them to formats that work in particular players).

I haven't worked on enough of the text formats or enough on multimedia
presentations in full to provide a complete step-by-step guide to this, but I
hope this is a helpful start. If anyone can help in this it would be
appreciated.

I would also draw the attention of people intersted in this to the creation
recently of a task force at W3C to look into the question of providing a
standard format for this - see
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tt-tf/2002Jan/003 for an introduction
to the list (which is also part of the list archive).

cheers

Charles McCN

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, John Morse wrote:

  all
  we are working on a proposal for a client, in the requirements is the
  inclusion of audio and video content,
  I know I need to provide a transcript of this content for the visually
  impaired, blind, hearing impaired and deaf,. but how best to do this?

  a static page?
  scrolling text, with control for speed direction and text size?
  subtitled content?

  your input gratefully received


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