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Proposal and Implementation of a Swiss Centre for Barrier-Free Communication Proposal and Implementation of a Swiss Centre for Barrier-Free Communication

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1. Audio Description
2. Combining Audio Description, Audio Introduction and Text-to-Speech (Read-aloud) Technology
3. Live-Subtitling: Respeaking and Speech-to-Text Interpreting via Keyboard
4. Easy-to-Read and Plain Language

5. Sign Language and Sign Language Interpreting
6. Speech to Sign Language Translation
7. Accessibility of Digital Documents
8. Speech-to-Text (Dictation) Systems

9. Community Interpreting
10. Community Interpreting into Plain Language

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BFC Conference 2020
BFC Conference 2018
BFC Conference 2017
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UNIGE - FTI - Department of Translation Technology
ZHAW - School of Applied Linguistics

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Project Leader

Prof. Susanne Jekat

ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics
Theaterstrasse 15c
8400 Winterthur

susanne.jekat(at)zhaw.ch

Swiss Centre for Barrier Free Communication

Main Contact at UNIGE

Prof. Pierrette Bouillon

Faculty of Translation and Interpreting
Department of Translation Technology (TIM)
University of Geneva
40, boulevard du Pont-d'Arve
1211 Geneva

pierrette.bouillon(at)unige.ch

About us

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Swiss Centre for Barrier-Free Communication

Theaterstrasse, 15c - 8400 Winterthur, Switzerland
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Centre website at ZHAW

https://www.zhaw.ch/en/linguistics/research/barrier-free-communication/

Other accessibility projects of the project partners

BabelDr
Menusigne
Trainslate

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