Summary of Swissadt: An Audio Description Translation System For Swiss Languages, by Lukas Fischer et al.
SwissADT: An Audio Description Translation System for Swiss Languages
by Lukas Fischer, Yingqiang Gao, Alexa Lintner, Sarah Ebling
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents SwissADT, an audio description translation (ADT) system for three main Swiss languages and English. Despite advancements in machine translation research, there is a lack of well-crafted AD data to support the development of multilingual ADT systems. The authors aim to enhance information accessibility by collecting AD data augmented with video clips in four languages and leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). They demonstrate the promising capability of SwissADT for the ADT task through automatic and human evaluations of ADT quality. Combining human expertise with LLMs can further enhance performance, benefiting a larger multilingual target population. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making audio descriptions available in different languages. Audio descriptions are important for people who cannot see, as they help explain what’s happening on TV or in videos. The authors want to make sure that these descriptions can be translated into many languages, including Swiss languages like German and French. They use special computer models called Large Language Models (LLMs) to translate the audio descriptions. They tested their system and found it works well! This will help more people understand what’s happening in videos, no matter what language they speak. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Translation
