The development of the voice read-out system for digital television receiver

Author

Furuta, Satoru ; Kawashima, Keigo ; Otsuka, Takahiro ; Yamaura, Tadashi ; Otsuka, Reiji

Author_Institution

Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

2-5 Oct. 2012

Firstpage

461

Lastpage

463

Abstract

We hope that every people can enjoy the convenient functions of digital broadcasting such as an Electronic Program Guide (EPG). In 2007, Mitsubishi Electric launched the mass-produced LCD television equipped with the EPG voice read-out system to Japanese domestic market. This paper describes the development of the voice read out function of a digital television receiver, background of development, the introduced speech synthesis system and the improvement degrees of every model based on end-user´s opinions are summarized respectively.

Keywords

digital television; liquid crystal displays; speech synthesis; television broadcasting; television receivers; EPG voice read-out system; Japanese domestic market; Mitsubishi Electric; digital broadcasting; digital television receiver; electronic program guide; end-user opinions; mass-produced LCD television; speech synthesis system; Broadcasting; Databases; Dictionaries; Receivers; Speech; Speech synthesis; TV; Digital television receiver; Speech synthesis; Text to speech;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics (GCCE), 2012 IEEE 1st Global Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1500-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCCE.2012.6379658

Filename

6379658