[tabi] Fw: [Tektalkdiscussion] Fw: Recruiting Now for Survey on SynthesizedSpeech and Audio Description
- From: "Lynn Evans" <evans-lynn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:07:08 -0500
Recruiting Now for Survey on Synthesized Speech and Audio DescriptionFYI
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From: Mary Watkins
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Subject: Recruiting Now for Survey on Synthesized Speech and Audio Description
Hello. Please see the announcement below inviting people who are blind or have
low vision to participate in an upcoming online survey.
Next week, we will be posting information on a separate online survey, under a
separate research project, inviting people who are deaf, hard of hearing or
late deafened for feedback on real time caption quality. So if this
announcement doesn't pertain to you, look out for that one next week.
Please feel free to forward this posting as you see fit to friends, colleagues
and other lists. Thanks!
February 19, 2010
Recruiting Now for a Survey on Synthesized Speech and Audio Description
IBM Research-Japan and WGBH's Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for
Accessible Media (NCAM) are conducting a joint study via an online survey on
the applicability of speech synthesis for audio description of Web-based video.
Adults (18+ years of age) who are blind or have low vision will be asked to
share their opinions about a few short video clips which include synthesized
description.
NCAM is seeking participants with a range of familiarity with synthesized
speech (from little or none to regular users) and as well as familiarity with
audio description (from little or none to regular users).
Interested in sharing your opinion? Please send an email to access@xxxxxxxx
with "participate" in the subject line. Once the online survey is posted on or
about March 1, you will be sent an email with the survey's Web site address and
asked to complete the survey by Friday, March 12. The survey, which will be
accessible via screen-reading software, should take no longer than one half
hour.
NCAM will summarize and share the results of the survey once user opinions are
analyzed.
NOTE: This is an early investigation into a subject many people who are blind
or have low-vision have asked about for many years. Though we are conducting
this study, WGBH does not intend to substitute synthesized speech for human
voices on the programs and movies we currently describe. Following this narrow
and limited initial study, further research will be required to expand the
scope of investigation into larger populations, other types of media and other
parameters.
Thank again,
Mary
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Mary Watkins
Director of Communications
and Outreach
Media Access Group at WGBH
One Guest Street
Boston, MA 02135
617 300-3700
mary_watkins@xxxxxxxx
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