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Public Service Internet, Talking with Machines, an IBC recap and more!

Public Service Internet

This sprint the Discovery Team’s been hard at work on our Public Service Internet projects. Chris has been combining the three stages of his quote attribution system to make a pipeline that can identify and source quotes in text automatically - a useful tool for fact-checking and sourcing news articles.

Meanwhile Tim and David have been doing further work on our Public Service Personalisation project - designing and piloting a study to evaluate the results of our design sprint at the end of the month, and arranging to recruit participants for it.

Speaker ID

Recently we’ve welcomed Nick who is joining the Data Team for his first placement on the R&D Graduate Scheme. Nick will be researching speaker identification technologies to assess the best available open source solutions. We hope to be able to roll out a speaker ID component as part of his placement for use alongside our speech to text and facial recognition tools.

Talking With Machines

Rosina Sound have recorded some help prompts for The Inspection Chamber which are in the process of being delivered to us.

Henry flew to Amsterdam to present our paper on prototyping for voice at IBC. The talk went down well, and a few interesting conversations were had afterwards. Henry has also done a few more press interviews about The Inspection Chamber.

Andrew has been working on visual assets and a brand for The Inspection Chamber, and he and Henry have been working on a brief for an illustrator to create a ‘cover image’ for the piece. We recruited a really good illustrator and we’re excited to work with them in the upcoming sprint!

Standards

Chris is now busy getting ready for the W3C’s annual conference, including preparing the agenda for the Media and Entertainment Interest Group meeting, and a presentation on the Group’s work to the W3C’s Advisory Committee.

Chris has organised the next conference call for the , which will discuss the , , and the network protocols for needed to support these.

Chris also had a really useful discussion with our on what new web standards may be needed to support .

IBC

Barbara, Tim and Thomas went to to be at the R&D stand where they demoed the work done on Atomised News as part of the Object Based Media work strand. Matt was also there with Dave and Alex from News Labs demoing the speech-to-text work being used withini the News Room.

We were surprised (and at times overwhelmed) by the great interest and amount of people wanting to find out more about the projects. We found really positive feedback from a wide range of conference attendees (journalists, broadcast engineers, etc…). Our work appeared several times on the official IBC daily magazine as well as the other fantastic work R&D showed.