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respeaker

n. in broadcasting, a person who renarrates, summarizes, or describes a television program for recording in preparation for subtitling. Subjects: , ,
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Citations: 2002 NHK-TV (Japan) (Feb.) “First ‘Kohaku Utagassen’ Closed Captioning Service”: A “re-speaker,” listening to the performer’s speech during the program, utters the content of that speech into the speech recognizer, which automatically produces a caption script. 2003 M.J. Evans BBC (U.K.) (July) “Speech Recognition in Assited and Live Subtitling for Television”: Script Capture supplements this with a re-speak system—using recognition trained to the re-speaker’s voice—to produce transcripts for programmes for which none exists. *2004 BBC (U.K.) (June 6) “Job Specification”: A Day in the Life of a Respeaker. 2004 Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan) (Aug. 13) “NHK to add closed captions to Olympics”: In live closed-captioned broadcasts, staffers called respeakers translate the original audio content into speech-recognition software that creates the closed captions.
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