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EnACT: A Software Tool for Creating Animated Text Captions

2008; Springer Science+Business Media; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_87

1611-3349

Quoc V. Vy, Jorge Mori, David Fourney, Deborah I. Fels,

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Music in captioning is often represented by only its title and/or a music note. This representation provides little to no information of the intended effect or emotion of the music. In this paper, we present a software tool that was created to enable users to mark emotions in a script or lyrics and then render those marks into animated text for display as captions. A pilot study was conducted to collect initial responses to, preferences and understanding of the animated lyrics of one song by a deaf and hard of hearing audience. Participants were able to identify the animated lyrics as belonging to a song and found that the animations helped them understand the portrayed emotions. They also identified the shaking style of animation portraying fear as least preferable.