International Business Machines Corporation

Laurence P Sansone

Samuel Jonathan Thomas

Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Vaibhava Goel

Etienne Marcheret

Lidia Mangu

Stanley S Chen

Abhinav Sethy

Kenneth W Church

Masayuki A Suzuki

Michael Alan Picheny

Zoltan Tueske

Yinghui Huang

Method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for customizing an automatic closed captioning system. In some embodiments, at a data use (DU) location, an automatic closed captioning system that includes a base model is provided, search criteria are defined to request from one or more data collection (DC) locations, a search request based on the search criteria is sent to the one or more DC locations, relevant closed caption data from the one or more DC locations are received responsive to the search request, the received relevant closed caption data are processed by computing a confidence score for each of a plurality of data sub-sets of the received relevant closed caption data and selecting one or more of the data sub-sets based on the confidence scores, and the automatic closed captioning system is customized by using the selected one or more data sub-sets to train the base model.

Using closed captions as parallel training data for customization of closed captioning systems

A method of combining data streams from fixed audio-visual sensors with data streams from personal mobile devices including, forming a communication link with at least one of one or more personal mobile devices; receiving at least one of an audio data stream and/or a video data stream from the at least one of the one or more personal mobile devices; determining the quality of the at least one of the audio data stream and/or the video data stream, wherein the audio data stream and/or the video data stream having a quality above a threshold quality is retained; and combining the retained audio data stream and/or the video data stream with the data streams from the fixed audio-visual sensors.

Combining installed audio-visual sensors with ad-hoc mobile audio-visual sensors for smart meeting rooms

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