Development of an automatic multilingual subtitling and dubbing system.

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ELHUYAR has designed the present project to provide digital automatic tools for the European audiovisual sector. Its general objective is the development and deployment of an advanced and robust platform that integrates innovative technological modules for multilingual automatic subtitling and dubbing for Spanish, English and French, as well as co-official languages of Spain (Basque, Catalan and Galician) built with state-of-the-art language processing techniques based on neural models and deep learning. The proposed platform will be offered to European audiovisual works producers and distributors so they can, in a quick and affordable way, offer them subtitled and/or dubbed to the mentioned languages and increase that way their targeted audiences. Doing so, the project will help the European Audiovisual Industry (especially small companies that currently cannot afford current translation and dubbing operations) boost their competitiveness in a global market and more specifically contribute to the achievement the following strategic objectives: - To adapt the audiovisual works to the new markets dominated by online platforms and new business models derived from this new scenario and the decline of the traditional incoming sources such as the Cinema box-office revenues, accelerated by the COVID pandemic. - To increase the availability, visibility, and audience of audiovisual works with limited resources to dub or subtitle them in other languages that historically have reached local audiences. - To make all the products truly global and accessible for the entire population, considering that the language is a major barrier to the dissemination and accessibility of content .