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Univ Access Inf Soc (2016) 15:461472 DOI 10.1007/s10209-015-0420-5
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SubTitleMe, subtitles in cinemas in mobile devices
Enrique Costa-Montenegro Ftima M. Garca-Doval
Jonathan Juncal-Martnez Beln Barragns-Martnez
Published online: 16 June 2015 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Abstract This paper presents an architecture developed in order to watch a movie in a cinema and follow subtitles in the mobile device. This architecture consists of a mobile application intended to display subtitles in an ordinary cinema, as well as a server containing the subtitles of those movies available at each cinema. The mobile device will connect to this server to download the desired subtitle. Once downloaded, the device is synchronized with the lm running, using timestamps provided by the server, and will display the subtitles accordingly. This architecture can be used by any person interested in the movie subtitles, such as people who want to read the subtitles in another language, like a tourist, or by hearing impaired people. It must be pointed out that it is difcult to access movies at cinemas, as there are very few movie theaters where lms are shown with subtitles regularly.
Keywords Subtitles Cinema Mobile application
Accessibility Hearing impairment
1 Introduction
This paper studies the design, implementation and use of an architecture intended for viewing subtitles in cinemas on demand. The architecture is designed following the Design for All paradigm, so it can be used by everybody, not restricted to a given group of people. Nevertheless, the authors believe that the main users will be people that do not understand the language in which the movie is displayed, like tourists, and people with hearing problems as our architecture improves the accessibility to the auditory content of a lm. Thus, although these groups of people may not properly understand the dialogues and sound of the lm to their full extent, they can follow the plot by reading the transcription of the former and the text description of the latter.
It is a closed captioning system, which would only be used by people who need it, without disturbing the rest of the audience.
This architecture consists of two different parts: the server, where the subtitles are stored, and the mobile application, which connects to the server...