• DocumentCode
    1508618
  • Title

    An affordable digital-display-to-natural-voice converter for visually impaired radio amateurs

  • Author

    Lacquet, B.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. of Eng., Rand Afrikaans Univ., Auckland Park
  • Volume
    4
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1996
  • fDate
    12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    438
  • Lastpage
    439
  • Abstract
    An electronic circuit to convert the information contained in a digital display to natural voice is presented. Extraction of the information is done on the display itself using buffered inputs to the converter. It is changed to voice by a microcontroller and a voice chip
  • Keywords
    biomedical electronics; handicapped aids; radio equipment; speech synthesis; affordable digital-display-to-natural-voice converter; buffered inputs; electronic circuit; microcontroller; visually impaired radio amateurs; voice chip; Counting circuits; Data mining; Data processing; Digital-to-frequency converters; Frequency conversion; Liquid crystal displays; Logic; Microcontrollers; Monitoring; Switches;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1063-6528
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/86.547947
  • Filename
    547947