Title :
Semi-automatic generation of Arabic digital talking books
Author :
Abu Doush, Iyad ; Alkhateeb, Faisal ; Al Raoof´ Bsoul, Abed
Author_Institution :
Comput. Sci. Dept., Yarmouk Univ., Irbid, Jordan
Abstract :
A very small percentage of books are available in accessible format for people with print disabilities (e.g., people with visual impairment and people with learning disabilities). The authors and publishers of e-books usually do not include certain features to make the e-book accessible. Digital talking books are electronic documents encoded in DAISY format. The purpose of this format is to provide access-for-all to digital information. This paper presents a framework for semiautomatic building of DAISY digital talking books for the Arabic language. The presented framework include: image-to-text converter, context-injector, text-to-audio-generator, and DAISY generator.
Keywords :
electronic publishing; handicapped aids; speech synthesis; text detection; Arabic digital talking books; DAISY digital talking books; DAISY format; DAISY generator; context-injector; digital information; e-book accessibility; electronic documents; image-to-text converter; learning disabled people; print disabled people; semiautomatic generation; text-to-audio-generator; visually impaired people; Books; Optical character recognition software; Portable document format; Speech; Speech synthesis; Synthesizers; Visualization; DAISY; assistive technologies; digital talking books; optical character recognition (OCR); print disabilities;
Conference_Titel :
User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), 2014 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shah Alam
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-5812-2
DOI :
10.1109/IUSER.2014.7002709
