• DocumentCode
    2997593
  • Title

    Digital Talking Book Player for the Visually Impaired Using FPGAs

  • Author

    Nazemi, Azadeh ; Ortega-Sanchez, Cesar ; Murray, Iain

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Curtin Univ. Perth, Perth, WA, Australia
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    Nov. 30 2011-Dec. 2 2011
  • Firstpage
    493
  • Lastpage
    496
  • Abstract
    The Digital Talking Book (DTB) player is a device for the visually impaired to read, search, navigate and bookmark written material using DAISY and EPUB standards. This paper presents the design and implementation of a DTB player in an FPGA-based embedded system to play audio books containing MP3 (Daisy) files and utilize Text to Speech Synthesis (TTS) for text only books or EPUB books.
  • Keywords
    electronic publishing; embedded systems; field programmable gate arrays; handicapped aids; multimedia systems; speech synthesis; DAISY standards; DTB player; EPUB standards; FPGA-based embedded system; MP3 files; TTS; audio books; bookmark written material; digital talking book player; text only books; text to speech synthesis; visually impaired people; Digital audio players; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Kernel; Linux; Navigation; Assistive Technology; Daisy Player; EPUB; FPGA; Text-to-Speech Synthesis; uClinux;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig), 2011 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cancun
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1734-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ReConFig.2011.28
  • Filename
    6128625