This document discusses synthetic speech, also known as text-to-speech (TTS). Synthetic speech is computer generated voice produced from typed or written text. It is used to help those who are blind, visually impaired, or have reading disabilities access written works by listening to them. The document discusses how Professor Stephen Hawking uses synthetic speech through a computer attached to his wheelchair to communicate. Some benefits of synthetic speech are speed of access, cost effectiveness, and confidentiality, while disadvantages include limitations in articulation, attention, and intelligence. The document proposes creating a personalized synthetic voice and concludes that while synthetic voices lack the warmth of human voices, they provide important accessibility options.
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Simple voice communication with machines
Personal computers
Interactive answering machines
Voice dialing of mobile telephones
Vehicle systems
Can access online as well as stored information
Content Tips: Finding Flow and Making Your Guide EngagingStaffan Gerlöw
Having a well functioning technical platform for your audio guide (which we make sure our customers do) is important, however, making your guide interesting, and marketing it, is the hard bit.
The guide itself is the actual “product” and engaging your visitors is essential. We are therefore putting together a content document (a guide to content ;) to share with our customers, or co-creators, as we can also think of each other.
This is a work-in-progress and we welcome your input and sharing of experiences!
Webcast for Reading Horizons Online Dyslexia Summit. Eric Price shares technology tips for students with dyslexia. For full presentation, visit https://www.readinghorizons.com/webinars/assistive-technology-in-the-classroom
Simple voice communication with machines
Personal computers
Interactive answering machines
Voice dialing of mobile telephones
Vehicle systems
Can access online as well as stored information
2. We’ll be discussing about :
•How Synthetic Speech is
used?
•TTS
•What are the Benefits of
Synthetic Speech?
•What are the disadvantages
of Synthetic Speech?
•Implementation
•New Focus
•Conclusion
3. What is Synthetic Speech??
Computerized voices generated
after typing/reading meaningful text
in/from a device.
Artificial human speech
The synthesizer is able to produce
an unlimited vocabulary, and can
therefore read aloud any text input.
This is known as text-to-speech
synthesis, better known as TTS.
Helping students with learning
disabilities , gaining educational
success.
4. How is synthetic speech used by blind / partially sighted people ?
Using it in real life…
5. We all know this man…
PROF. STEPHAN HAWKING
When he talks , people listen !!
•One letter at a time using a
twitch of his cheek to stop a
cursor as it moves across an on-
screen keyboard.
•After he painstakingly crafts his
sentences one word at a time, a
computer attached to his
wheelchair reads them out in
the distinctive metallic voice for
which he is Well Known.
6. •It is almost impossible
(and luckily useless)
to record and store all the words
of the language.
It is thus more suitable to define
Text-To-Speech as the
automatic production of speech.
•An intelligent
text-to-speech program
allows people with
visual impairments or
reading disabilities
to listen to written works
on a home computer.
18. OUR NEW FOCUS …
CREATING A PERSONALIZED SYNTHETIC VOICE !!!
19. CONCLUSION :
•Computer-generated voices do not have the warmth and richness of a human voice.
&
•the range of talents found in a skilled narrator.
BUT
MORE OPTIONS ARE THE WORTH EXPLORING !!!
•Accessibility to visually impaired persons
•Sometimes online courses are left as text only
•Effective as the voice of an avatar or guide
Some of the TTS synthesizers have been briefly mentioned in my report.