Purpose:

  • Recommend that Inflight Entertainment supply chains adopt approved LMT codes in all transactions where languages are specified.
  • Identify resources to validate any LMT codes before use.
  • Identify (or provide) dictionary resources to convert from LMT codes to legacy (Vendor Specific) ISO-639 variants
  • Publish an ‘APEX minimum requirement’, defining support for 50 languages.
  • Establish some convention to define the role of a language asset (avoiding any corruption/extension of LMT language code)

Role definitions: Spoken Dialog, Audio Description, Subtitle, Caption etc.

  • Publish a (non-binding) timeframe for the principal IFE partners to adopt LMT language codes.

Working Group Members:

  • Andy Beer, Spafax (Co-Chair)
  • Wilson Capitao, Above (Co-Chair)
  • Michael Valdez, Panasonic
  • Eric Silverstein, West Entertainment
  • Dickson Mbogo, Thales
  • Joshua Smith, Anuvu
  • Yonah Levenson, LMT
  • Tim Willis, Safran
  • Richard Kroon, EIDR

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