Title :
A multilingual screen reader in Indian languages
Author :
Raghavendra, E. Veera ; Prahallad, Kishore
Author_Institution :
Int. Inst. of Inf. Technol., Hyderabad, India
Abstract :
Screen reader is a form of assistive technology to help visually impaired people to use or access the computer and Internet. So far, it has remained expensive and within the domain of English (and some foreign) language computing. For Indian languages this development is limited by: availability of Text-to-Speech (TTS) system in Indian languages, support for reading glyph based font encoded text, Text Normalization for converting non standard words into standard words, supporting multiple languages. In this paper we would discuss how to handle these issues in building multilingual screen reader in Indian languages.
Keywords :
Internet; handicapped aids; natural language processing; speech synthesis; text analysis; English language; Indian languages; Internet access; assistive technology; computer access; foreign language computing; glyph based font encoded text; multilingual screen reader; multiple languages; text normalization; text-to-speech system; visually impaired people; Computer architecture; Computer displays; Data mining; Internet; Keyboards; Mice; Natural languages; Speech synthesis; Standards development; Text recognition; font identification and screen reader; speech synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Communications (NCC), 2010 National Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chennai
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6383-1
DOI :
10.1109/NCC.2010.5430191
