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3rd IPTV application challenge

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Carlos Salles Soares Neto (Recipient) & Rosendy Fernandez Galabo (Recipient)

Joint ITU and IPC IPTV Application Challenge - Best Apps - Individual/SME
is awarded to the following two winners.
- Laboratory of Advanced Web Systems (Brazil) for its application titled: “Listening TV: a different perspective about watching TV” running over ITU-T H.761
- Mr Günter Heinrich Herweg Filho (Brazil) for his application titled: “A+” running over ITU-T H.761

"Listening TV: a different perspective about watching TV" is a digital TV application that enables people with visual impairment to access the broadcasted multimedia content on Digital TV with audio description support. This Digital TV app allows the viewer to activate audio descriptions of scenes, characters, or scenarios on the TV at any time.
Awarded date12/09/2016
Degree of recognitionInternational
Granting OrganisationsInternational Telecommunication Union