Subbit! Is an initiative of the Europeana Subtitled project. The project gathers seven major national broadcasters and audiovisual archives from seven European countries. These partners will provide more than 6,000 high-quality audiovisual materials to Europeana around the theme ‘Broadcasting Europe’. The records will be selected to highlight social, political and cultural changes in Europe, from the 1930s through to the present day, as seen on television.
The project will adapt AI technology to cultural heritage audiovisual material to produce high-quality closed captions and English subtitles for selected video content. Both closed captions (CC) and subtitles are commonly used to transcribe and translate dialogues. Closed captions, in particular, assist individuals with hearing disabilities in the comprehension of video content.
The project will support cultural heritage professionals with the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine translation (MT) technologies through an online training suite consisting of video tutorials, documentation and guidelines. Europeana Subtitled will organise a series of three events to present the developed tools to cultural heritage institutions with audiovisual collections and provide hands-on training on how to use them in their daily practice.
Finally, the project will engage with various audiences through crowdsourcing events and editorial activities on Europeana. Europeana Subtitled will also work together with teachers and museum educators to create learning resources with audiovisual content and focus on language learning using the Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology.
This project is a Europeana Generic Services project, and it is co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union.
Translated Srl - Italy (coordinator)
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Italy
Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid - The Netherlands
Istituto Luce Cinecittà srl - Italy
Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española Sociedad Anónima, S.M.E. - Spain
Deutsche Welle - Germany
Radiotelevizija Slovenija - Slovenia
Elliniki Radiofonia Tileorasi Anonimi Etaireia Ert S.A. - Greece
Societatea Romana De Televiziune Srtv - Romania
Stichting Europeana - the Netherlands
