Mai Yanagimura, Shingo Kuroiwa, Yasuo Horiuchi, Sachiyo Muranishi, and Daisuke Furukawa

Preliminary Study of TV Caption Presentation Method for Aphasia Sufferers and Supporting System to Summarize TV captions

Abstract: We conducted an experiment in which people with aphasia watched TV news with summarized TV captions made by speech-language-hearing therapists in accordance with our rules for summarizing captions. As a result, we found the summarized TV captions are better subjectively for aphasia sufferers. To familiarize people with the summarized captions, we’ve developed a supporting system for any volunteers to summarize Japanese captions while keeping a consistent summarization style. A result of preliminary evaluation shows some of symbols ...

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