The Conference aims at spreading information on the potentialities of voice
recognition and voice synthesis techniques and in encouraging an awareness
rising process on the ways of helping people with disabilities. It will present
the results achieved by the VOICE Project and the Development and Harmonisation
of Subtitling in European Television Broadcasting Project and discuss
new challenges. The speakers will demonstrate the use of voice recognition
for generating subtitles of conferences and television broadcasts (for people
with hearing impairment), as well as the navigation on the Internet assisted
by voice recognition (for people with motor impairment) and by voice synthesis
(for people with visual impairment).
The Conference represents the JRC contribution to the Closing Events
of the European Year of People with Disabilities 2003. JRC-Ispra
may be seen as the obvious intersection of the Italian and the European closing
events, with a particular accent on the aspects of European Research and disabilities.
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