Blue herd: automated captioning for videoconferences

  • Authors:
  • Ira R. Forman;Ben Fletcher;John Hartley;Bill Rippon;Allen Wilson

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM, Austin, TX, USA;IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA;IBM, Austin, TX, USA;IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA;IBM, Austin, TX, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Blue Herd is a project in IBM Research to investigate automated captioning for videoconferences. Today videoconferences are held among meeting participants connected with a variety of devices: personal computers, mobile devices, and multi-participant meeting rooms. Blue Herd is charged with studying automated real-time captioning in that context. This poster explains the system that was developed for personal computers and describes our experiments to include mobile devices and multi-participant meeting rooms.