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An automatic caption alignment mechanism for off-the-shelf speech recognition technologies
Maria Federico,Marco Furini +1 more
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A novel, automatic, simple and low-cost mechanism that does not require human transcriptions or special dedicated software to align captions is proposed and can be helpful to expand video content accessibility.Citations
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Television Literacy: Comprehension of Program Content Using Closed Captions for the Deaf
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