Title :
An affordable digital-display-to-natural-voice converter for visually impaired radio amateurs
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Eng., Rand Afrikaans Univ., Auckland Park
fDate :
12/1/1996 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on