(ELECTRONIC MUSIC)
Hello, my name is Anna Fernández Torné.
I'm a member of Transmedia Catalonia Research group.
at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.
I am a tall woman.
I have brown eyes and long brown curly hair.
I am wearing a black jersey and I am standing against a white wall.
At present, I am involved in a European project called EASIT.
EASIT stands for Easy Access for Social Inclusion Training.
It deals with making information easy to understand
in audiovisual media and audiovisual access services.
The project started on the 1st of September, 2018,
and will finish on the 31st of August, 2021.
In EASIT we have taken different steps so far.
We've surveyed across Europe
on easy-to-understand language training and practice.
We have defined 3 new professional profiles
and have identified their skills.
These are: expert in easy-to-understand subtitles,
expert in easy-to-understand audio description
and expert in easy-to-understand audiovisual journalism.
We have also designed an academic curriculum proposal
and a MOOC proposal,
and now we have just started to create materials
to train them.
These materials will be on the project website for free.
In fact, I invite you to visit the EASIT website.
It is in 8 languages and is written in easy language.
It offers information on different modes.
There is a human voice recording of the text,
which can be downloaded for each page and language.
And each website page has an embedded machine-voiced web reader,
which highlights both the sentence the voice is about to read
and the word the voice is pronouncing at the moment.
Check it out and you will learn more about the project.
Thank you.