Goiena Komunikazio Taldea (Media Group) :

Automatic transcription and subtitling

Overview

The Goiena Komunikazio Taldea is a multimedia Basque-language media organisation operating in the Debagoiena area and finds the Orai ASR and TTS technologies extremely useful when subtitling videos and audios, transcribing interviews or turning written content into audio content (podcast). The Abao Komunikazio Agentzia (communication agency) produces videos, and also records, broadcasts and uploads to the Internet lectures and municipal council meetings; it finds Orai technology useful when subtitling them, taking minutes of the meetings or translating them.  Orai’s transcription technology is integrated into their multimedia management tools.

Challenge

Both Goiena and Abao are located in the Debagoiena area and many of the interviews, shows, talks and municipal meetings are conducted in the local Basque dialect and have many local place names and special names. We are adapting Orai's transcription technology to the Debagoiena dialect and adding personalisation options that recognise local place names and special names. The work being done here will open up the way to doing the same with other Basque dialects. It is interesting to be able to imitate the voices of Goiena reporters when turning texts into podcasts by means of TTS.

Collaboration

• Goiena Komunikazio Taldea (Media Group)
• Abao Komunikazio Agentzia (Communication Agency)

Result

Orai technology has been integrated into the Goiena and Abao multimedia systems and is used to produce subtitles and transcriptions. The improvements we are making in terms of Basque dialects and personalisation are also being implemented here. Synthesizers that imitate the voices of some of the Goiena reporters have been developed to automatically create website podcasts.