Active Projects
SCRIPT: Speech Synthesis for Spoken Content Production
SCRIPT is a 3-year research and innovation project looking to develop synthetic voices for low-resourced languages.
Tagged with automation, language tech, machine translation, machines do the heavy lifting, partnerships, research, speech synthesis, text to speech, universities, video, world service
Audiogram Generator
Audiogram Generator is a tool for turning audio content into video files that can be shared on social media.
Stitch
Stitch is a tool that allows journalists to create rich graphics video templates directly from their web browser.
Tagged with automation, innovation, language tech, machines do the heavy lifting, video, world service
Atomised News - with BBC R&D
News Labs has been working with BBC R&D to explore a mobile-focussed, structured breadth & depth approach to News experiences
Tagged with Adaptive News, Atomised News, Mobile video, Research and Development, Structured Journalism, The Activists, The Distracted, The Explorers, The Unattached, millennials
360 Video & VR - Immersive News
We are looking into the craft, applications and audience experience around 360 video filming and VR for Immersive News.
Tagged with 360 shooting, Immersive News, Mobile video, Presenters, VR, Zillah Watson on 360 Filming, immersive news
Blog Posts
NOV 04 2015
Drones vs 360
Plans to fuse drones and 360 cameras
Dormant Projects
Pool of Video
BBC News Labs is looking into some new research questions based on AV curation.
Closed Projects
Google Glass apps for BBC News
BBC News Labs investigated some preliminary ideas for Google Glass applications.
Live Stream - Live video from Journalists' mobiles
Live View allows Journalists to IP 'live stream' via our digital services. It also supports wrapping/integrations these live streams with social conversations and linked data relationships.
Touchcast
During late 2013 BBC News Labs ran a set of Touchcast pilots, and Touchcast moved to production in 2014.
Tagged with Interactive video, digital journalists