Effect of Additional Verbal Information on Retention of a Radio News Program

The article presents the results from a systematic observation of and interviews with journalists who produce local radio news program, BandNews FM, in Rio de Janeiro. The objective is to analyze how the gatewatching process is applied to selecting sources from WhatsApp, and to explore the specific nature of work carried out in radio journalism newsrooms. One of the main features of this broadcaster is the large number of public voices selected from the WhatsApp instant messaging application. The data shows popular voices selected for this paper which fit into a particular theme, it shows the collaborative curation with listeners, and it shows the organizational constraints of investigation, highlighted by journalists sitting behind a desk, absent from the stage of the events. Unlike other media vehicles, radio demands continuous updating and decentralization when selecting material to be broadcast. This study points out characteristics that are demanded of journalists who work in radio and the new, newsroom strategies of involving the public via social networking platforms.O artigo apresenta resultados de uma observação sistemática e entrevistas com jornalistas que produzem o radiojornal local da BandNews FM no Rio de Janeiro. O objetivo é analisar como o processo de gatewatching é executado na seleção das fontes via WhatsApp na emissora e as especificidades no trabalho desenvolvido nas redações de radiojornalismo. Uma das principais características apresentadas pela emissora é o alto número de vozes populares selecionadas por meio da interação no aplicativo de mensagens instantâneas. Os dados mostram um encaixe temático das vozes populares selecionadas, a curadoria colaborativa em conjunto com os ouvintes e os constrangimentos organizacionais na apuração com o perfil do jornalista sentado e ausente do palco dos acontecimentos. Ao contrário de outros meios, o rádio demanda de atualização contínua e a descentralização na seleção dos materiais levados ao ar. Nesse sentido, a pesquisa aponta características que o trabalho no ambiente radiofônico demanda dos jornalistas e as novas estratégias desenvolvidas nas redações com o envolvimento dos públicos via plataformas de redes sociais. El artículo presenta resultados de una observación sistemática y entrevistas con periodistas que producen el radio de periodismo local de BandNews FM en Río de Janeiro. El objetivo es analizar cómo el proceso de gatewatching se ejecuta en la selección de las fuentes vía WhatsApp en la emisora y las especificidades en el trabajo desarrollado en las redacciones de radio-periodismo. Una de las principales características presentadas por la emisora es el alto número de voces populares seleccionadas por medio de la interacción en la aplicación de mensajería instantánea. Los datos muestran un encaje temático de las voces populares seleccionadas, la curaduría colaborativa en conjunto con los oyentes y las limitaciones organizacionales en el recuento con el perfil del periodista sentado y ausente del escenario de los acontecimientos. A diferencia de otros medios, la radio demanda de actualización continua y la descentralización en la selección de los materiales llevados al aire. En ese sentido, la investigación apunta características que el trabajo en el ambiente radiofónico demanda de los periodistas y las nuevas estrategias desarrolladas en las redacciones con la participación de los públicos vía plataformas de redes sociales.

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Inteligencia artificial aplicada a programas informativos de radio. Estudio de caso de segmentación automática de noticias en RNE

El profesional de la información ◽

10.3145/epi.2021.may.20 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Virginia Bazán-Gil ◽

Carmen Pérez-Cernuda ◽

Noemí Marroyo-Núñez ◽

Paloma Sampedro-Canet ◽

David De-Ignacio-Ledesma

Keyword(s):

Quality Criteria ◽

Media Management ◽

Word Error Rate ◽

Covering System ◽

News Program ◽

Two Phases ◽

News Segmentation ◽

Radio News ◽

Medios De Comunicacion ◽

Minimum Quality

The results of a project on news segmentation at Radio Nacional de España (RNE) carried out by the RTVE Technological Innovation and Media Management areas is presented. The aim of this project is to apply artificial intelligence to automatically transcribe and cut the news items that make up a radio news program. The main goals of this project are to increase the accessibility of the content and to allow its reusability on various platforms and social media. The project was planned in two phases, covering system configuration and service delivery. The minimum quality criteria required were defined in advance, both for automatic voice transcription and for news segmentation. For the speech-to-text process, the highest word error rate (WER) allowed was 10%, while the precision rate for the news segmentation was 85%. System performance in both transcription and segmentation was considered to be sufficient, although a higher degree of accuracy in news cutting is expected in the coming months. The results show that, despite using these quite mature technologies, adjustment and learning processes and human intervention are still necessary. Resumen Se presentan los resultados del proyecto para la segmentación en noticias de los informativos de Radio Nacional de España (RNE) llevado a cabo por el Área de Innovación Tecnológica de Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) en colaboración con la Dirección de Medios de RNE. El objetivo de este proyecto es aplicar la inteligencia artificial para el cortado automático de las noticias que componen un informativo radiofónico, para su posterior difusión en la web de RTVE y en medios de comunicación social. El proyecto se planificó en dos fases: una primera de configuración y ajuste del sistema, y una segunda de prestación del servicio propiamente dicho. Los criterios de calidad mínimos exigibles se definieron previamente, tanto para la transcripción automática del habla a texto, para la que se estableció una tasa de error por palabra máxima (WER) del 10%, como para la segmentación de noticias, para la que se definió una tasa de precisión superior al 85%. El rendimiento del sistema tanto en la transcripción como en la segmentación se considera suficiente, si bien se espera alcanzar un mayor grado de precisión en el cortado de noticias en los próximos meses. Los resultados ponen de manifiesto que, a pesar de ser tecnologías bastante maduras, son necesarios procesos de ajuste y aprendizaje con la intervención humana.

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Eye Movements of Children and Adults While Reading Television Subtitles

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040.12.3.196 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 196-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 57

Author(s):

Géry d'Ydewalle ◽

Wim De Bruycker

Keyword(s):

Eye Movements ◽

Foreign Language ◽

Age Differences ◽

Information Sources ◽

Native Language ◽

Verbal Information ◽

Single Text ◽

Grade 5 ◽

Reading Patterns ◽

Attentional System

Abstract. Eye movements of children (Grade 5-6) and adults were monitored while they were watching a foreign language movie with either standard (foreign language soundtrack and native language subtitling) or reversed (foreign language subtitles and native language soundtrack) subtitling. With standard subtitling, reading behavior in the subtitle was observed, but there was a difference between one- and two-line subtitles. As two lines of text contain verbal information that cannot easily be inferred from the pictures on the screen, more regular reading occurred; a single text line is often redundant to the information in the picture, and accordingly less reading of one-line text was apparent. Reversed subtitling showed even more irregular reading patterns (e.g., more subtitles skipped, fewer fixations, longer latencies). No substantial age differences emerged, except that children took longer to shift attention to the subtitle at its onset, and showed longer fixations and shorter saccades in the text. On the whole, the results demonstrated the flexibility of the attentional system and its tuning to the several information sources available (image, soundtrack, and subtitles).

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Articulatory Rehearsal Is More Than Refreshing Memory Traces

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000179 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 60 (2) ◽

pp. 131-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ryoji Nishiyama ◽

Jun Ukita

Keyword(s):

Free Recall ◽

Recall Performance ◽

Verbal Working Memory ◽

Verbal Information ◽

Free Recall Task ◽

Study Item ◽

Phonological Representations ◽

Memory Traces ◽

Short Period ◽

Serial Position Curves

This study examined whether additional articulatory rehearsal induced temporary durability of phonological representations, using a 10-s delayed nonword free recall task. Three experiments demonstrated that cumulative rehearsal between the offset of the last study item and the start of the filled delay (Experiments 1 and 3) and a fixed rehearsal of the immediate item during the subsequent interstimulus interval (Experiments 2 and 3) improved free recall performance. These results suggest that an additional rehearsal helps to stabilize phonological representations for a short period. Furthermore, the analyses of serial position curves suggested that the frequency of the articulation affected the durability of the phonological representation. The significance of these findings as clues of the mechanism maintaining verbal information (i.e., verbal working memory) is discussed.

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