Live Aquarium Show Information Support for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

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Deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people often lose the opportunity to learn and enjoy interactive live presentations in museums using voice and sound. We focused on an aquarium live show with cheering and tried to provide captions of trainers’ and narrators’ voices to DHH people’s smartphones. Speech recognition was not available because the venue was very noisy. We manually typed text for captions. Because typing Japanese with Kana–Kanji conversion is more complicated than typing English, we used a special system that we developed. This system allows two or more people to take turns inputting text in real time. Captions can be viewed on participants’ smartphones. Fourteen participants answered some questionnaire items. The results of the experiment suggest the following. Participants were able to enjoy the live show more with the help of real-time captions. However, the usability of captions was low. Several participants noted that they strongly felt the caption delay when trainers and other spectators interact and that they did not have time to read long captions. Our future work is to optimize caption delay and length.

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  • NTUT Education of Disabilities

    NTUT Education of Disabilities 17 1-4, 2022-03

    The Committee for Promotion of Academic and Social Contribution, National University Corporation Tsukuba University of Technology

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