This Omdena Local Chapter Challenge runs for 4 weeks and is a unique experience to try and grow your skills in a collaborative and safe environment with a diverse mix of people from all over the world.

You will work on solving a local problem, initiated by the Omdena Turkiye Chapter.

The problem

Currently, films/movies in Turkiye usually do not have closed captions. For example, in September 2022, only 1 of the 746 films shown/released on television, cinema, digital platforms, festivals, and events had closed captions. Dem Association aims to add “closed captions” to these films/movies for individuals with hearing loss, whose number is 3 million 721 thousand 954 in Turkiye.

In addition to the problem of lack of closed captions, the existing closed captions are usually added to movies manually. It means a translator watches and listens to movies and prepares the closed captions. Existing “speech-to-text” tools can not distinguish different and overlapping human voices and background sounds. Also, they can not put them in writing appropriately for deaf culture.

Omdena Turkiye Local Chapter partners with Dem Association to work on solving this problem by developing an AI-generated automated closed captioning system.

The goals

• To find data sources for closed captioning AI systems.
• To develop a toy model of an AI-generated closed captioning system in English.
• To develop a toy model of an AI-generated closed captioning system in Turkish.

Why join? The uniqueness of Omdena Local Chapter Challenges

Omdena Local Chapter Challenges are not a competition or hackathon but a real-world project that will grow your experience to a new level.

A unique learning experience with the potential to make an impact through the outcome of the project. You will go through an entire data science project lifecycle. This covers problem scoping, data collection, and preparation, as well as modeling for deployment.

And the best part is that you will join the global and collaborative community of Omdena with tons of benefits to accelerate your career.

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