A bit of background, Brazil-based EasyWay language center is primarily targeted at foreigners living in Brazil (eg. student and ex-pats) looking to learn Portugese. You may remember the innovative use of the Chrome speech input functionality that they used as part of their web experience a few months back (see previous post here). Now EasyWay has launched another service that uses Google technology in a clever way. Their agency, Loducca, has created a browser based experience that helps people learn Portugese by providing subtitles for Brazilian TV in any language.
The website provides real-time subtitles to the major Brazilian TV channels by combining old school closed captioning technology and Google Translate. Here's how it works: EasyWay has a computer hooked to up to TV set 24 hours a day. The computer captures and uploads the closed caption data to be translated on the website. Users visit the site from their mobile device (or laptop I suppose) and choose their preferred language & TV channel. Voila! The subtitles for the program are displayed on their second screen, synced up to the TV broadcast. Check out the video below for a better explanation.
No comments:
Post a Comment