An on-line system adding subtitles and sign language to Spanish audio-visual content

Abstract

Deaf people cannot properly access the speech information stored in any kind of recording format (audio, video, etc). We present a system that provides with subtitling and Spanish Sign Language representation capabilities to allow Spanish Deaf population can access to such speech content. The system is composed by a speech recognition module, a machine translation module from Spanish to Spanish Sign Language and a Spanish Sign Language synthesis module. On the deaf person side, a user-friendly interface with subtitle and avatar components allows him/her to access the speech information