A multilingual screen reader in Indian languages

Author

Raghavendra, E. Veera ; Prahallad, Kishore

Author_Institution

Int. Inst. of Inf. Technol., Hyderabad, India

fYear

2010

fDate

29-31 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Screen reader is a form of assistive technology to help visually impaired people to use or access the computer and Internet. So far, it has remained expensive and within the domain of English (and some foreign) language computing. For Indian languages this development is limited by: availability of Text-to-Speech (TTS) system in Indian languages, support for reading glyph based font encoded text, Text Normalization for converting non standard words into standard words, supporting multiple languages. In this paper we would discuss how to handle these issues in building multilingual screen reader in Indian languages.

Keywords

Internet; handicapped aids; natural language processing; speech synthesis; text analysis; English language; Indian languages; Internet access; assistive technology; computer access; foreign language computing; glyph based font encoded text; multilingual screen reader; multiple languages; text normalization; text-to-speech system; visually impaired people; Computer architecture; Computer displays; Data mining; Internet; Keyboards; Mice; Natural languages; Speech synthesis; Standards development; Text recognition; font identification and screen reader; speech synthesis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications (NCC), 2010 National Conference on

Conference_Location

Chennai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6383-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NCC.2010.5430191

Filename

5430191