I PROGETTI VOICE E MOISE

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I PROGETTI VOICE E MOISE

• Presentazione di Giuliano Pirelli
• European Commission Joint Research Centre
• Institute for the Protection and the Security of
  the Citizen
• Seminario Moise
• Madrid, 15 dicembre 2001

• ACCESSIBILITA ED INTEGRAZIONE NELLA SCUOLA

• LA SORDITA
• IL PROGETTO VOICE

• Il Progetto VOICE

• Il PROGETTO Voice

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Principio di base

• Promuovere luso dei sistemi diriconoscimento
  vocale per la sordità.
• Esempio un PC può riconoscere le parole e
  convertirle
• in testo, consentendo ad una persona sorda di
  leggere su
• uno schermo ciò che viene detto.
• Sottotitoli per
• scuola
• conferenze
• transmissioni televisive
• conversazione telefonica

TEXT
VOICE
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Sottotitolazione
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Riconoscimento via telefono
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Il Progetto VOICE
Videoconferenza sottotitolata

• voice_at_jrc.ithttp//voice.jrc.it

• 100 seminari, 5000 partecipanti,Sito Web e Forum
  Associazioni
• Sperimentazione presso le scuole
• Trasmissioni RAI, RTBF, TV5, contatti TV Europa
  e Canada.
• PC portatile con occhiali

Seminario sottotitolato
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Telematics Applications Programme

• VOICE Accompanying Measure
• Giving a VOICE to the deaf, by developing
  awareness
• of VOICE to text recognition capabilities
• Objectives
• develop prototypes of voice systems for the deaf
• demonstrate the prototypes to relevant
  organisations
• use a VOICE Forum on the Internet as a Project
  tool
• organise meetings / workshops using the
  prototypes
• Partners
• JRC-ISIS, Kepler University of Linz,
  SoftSol-FBL, ALFA, CECOEV, IHSB
• Duration 2 years

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Conferences, School or University

A slide is projected on the left screen by the
speaker the text generated by the speech
recognition system is converted into subtitling
lines and projected on the right wall-screen,
under the speaker's image taken by a
video-camera.
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Subtitled Videoconference

A deaf user communicates with a colleague the
text generated by the speech recognition system
is converted into subtitling lines and overlaid
onto the correspondents video image.
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Hearing impairment

• 25 of EU elderly or disabled(hearing loss
  increasing with age)
• 5 of EU deaf or hard of hearing
• Just imagine being one of Europes...
• 300,000 deaf (0.1 of the population)
• 3,000,000 partially deaf (1)
• 30,000,000 hard of hearing, disavantaged and
  foreigners(10)
• and try to read my lips.

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VOICE Project

• EUROPEAN COMMISSION
• JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE
• Ispra Site
• INSTITUTE FOR THE PROTECTION AND THE SECURITY OF
  THE CITIZEN
• VOICE PROJECT
• voice_at_jrc.it http//voice.jrc.it
• giuliano.pirelli_at_jrc.it
• fax [phone]
• tel. [phone]