CONTENTS

Policy on Intellectual Property Right (IPR)
 1     Hearing disabilities
 2     Sight impairment
 3     Aging audience
 4     Receiver user-friendliness
Annex 1  Technologies to improve accessibility to broadcasting services
 1     Speech rate conversion technology
 2     Real-time closed-captioning using speech recognition
 3     Multimedia browsing system for the visually impaired
 4     Machine translation to sign language with CG-animation
 5     Device for evaluating broadcast background sound balance
 6     Easy-to-read language broadcasting service and language conversion support technology
       6.1      What does easy Japanese mean?
       6.2      Web service functions
       6.3      Rewrite support system
       6.4      Future challenges
 7     Sound level adjustment system with a speech rate conversion (SRC) for channel-based stereo signals
        7.1     Prototype speech rate conversion system
        7.2     Subjective evaluation