• DocumentCode
    278188
  • Title

    Personalised ADPCM speech playback devices for the non-vocal and the non-vocal physically handicapped

  • Author

    Reilly, R.B. ; DePaor, A.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. Dublin, Ireland
  • fYear
    1991
  • fDate
    33315
  • Firstpage
    42430
  • Lastpage
    42432
  • Abstract
    Two personalised instantaneous speech playback devices were designed and developed. Both centred upon the memory efficiency advantages of Adaptive Differential Pulse Coded Modulation (ADPCM). One system is handheld and offers 64 seconds of speech. The second system has a dictionary of 230 four second phrases and is PC based
  • Keywords
    handicapped aids; speech synthesis; ADPCM; Adaptive Differential Pulse Coded Modulation; speech playback devices; vocally handicapped;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Systems and Applications of Man-Machine Interaction Using Speech I/O, IEE Colloquium on
  • Conference_Location
    London
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    181338