Maike Richter – IRT Lab

Audio Description via bone conduction headphones using HbbTV2

Maike Richter — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 06:23:37 +0000

People with visual impairments often need audio description when watching TV in order to understand what is happening visually. This can be problematic in certain group settings, where it is not possible to enable audio description e.g. public viewing events. In a group setting, as of now, everybody listens to the same broadcast sound together ...

Speech intelligibility: Dialog+ via HbbTV 2

Maike Richter — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 09:45:09 +0000

Over the past several years the number of complaints from TV viewers about hard to understand dialogue in various programs has been increasing. Many viewers are not always able to follow the dialogue of a TV program without effort even though they have adjusted the volume. Reasons for this can be age-related hearing impairments, modern ...