Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
1 Hearing disabilities
2 Sight impairment
3 Aging audience
4 Receiver user-friendliness
Annex 1 Technologies to improve accessibility to broadcasting services
1 Speech rate conversion technology
2 Real-time closed-captioning using speech recognition
3 Multimedia browsing system for the visually impaired
4 Machine translation to sign language with CG-animation
5 Device for evaluating broadcast background sound balance
6 Easy-to-read language broadcasting service and language conversion
support technology
6.1 What does easy Japanese mean?
6.2 Web service functions
6.3 Rewrite support system
6.4 Future challenges
7 Sound level adjustment system with a speech rate conversion (SRC) for
channel-based stereo signals
7.1 Prototype speech rate conversion system
7.2 Subjective evaluation
8 Personalization that improves accessibility using object-based sound
technology
8.1 Dialogue enhancement
8.2 Audio description and multilingual dialogues
9 Haptic information presentation technology
10 Audio descriptions
10.1 Audio Descriptions, example for Live Broadcasts
Annex 2 Terminology and guidance for operational practice
related to audio-visual media accessibility