Title :
Adapting a TTS system to a reading machine for the blind
Author :
Portele, Thomas ; Krämer, Jürgen
Author_Institution :
Inst. fur Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Bonn Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Synthesis systems that convert orthographic text into speech usually make assumptions about the input that are no longer valid when used in combination with a scanner and OCR software. The paper describes our experience of adapting our TTS system for use use in such a reading machine. As synthesis systems move from the laboratory to applications, some surprises may be in store. The paper is intended to share our experiences with other developers in order to prevent them from repeating our mistakes
Keywords :
handicapped aids; natural languages; optical character recognition; speech recognition; speech synthesis; word processing; OCR software; TTS system; blind; orthographic text; reading machine; speech synthesis systems; Application software; Delta modulation; Human voice; Laboratories; Optical character recognition software; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; System testing; Telephony; Text recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Spoken Language, 1996. ICSLP 96. Proceedings., Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3555-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICSLP.1996.607072
