The Government today instructed the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority to conduct a pilot project on converting speech to text. This would allow direct subtitling of TV programmes.
"There are some 1.3 million hearing impaired people in Sweden. That is almost 14 per cent of the population and, like everyone else, they have the right to understand what is being said on television. It is therefore significant and very gratifying that SVT and UR may soon be able to easily provide direct subtitling of their Swedish programmes," says Minister for Culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth.