A low-cost speech-synthesis system for translation of ASCII text to oral language as a vision impaired aid

Author

Ramirez, Juan Manuel ; Bolanos, G. ; Baez-lopez, David

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. de las Americas, Cholula Puebla, Mexico

fYear

1995

fDate

9-10 Jun 1995

Firstpage

321

Lastpage

324

Abstract

Presents a simple and low-cost PC-based system to convert and ASCII file into oral language (Spanish) as a vision impaired aid. Three major parts can be distinguished: a database with a set of the most used syllables, which was constructed after research on the Spanish language, an extension board connected to the expansion slot of the PC, and the software required to perform the manipulation of the signals in both parts, speech acquisition and synthesis. The system is currently under testing with good results. General performance and conclusions are discussed

Keywords

add-on boards; handicapped aids; language translation; microcomputer applications; natural languages; speech synthesis; ASCII text to oral language translation; PC expansion slot; Spanish language; extension; low-cost speech-synthesis system; signal manipulation; speech acquisition; syllables database; vision impaired aid; Biomedical optical imaging; Databases; Face detection; Hardware; Natural languages; Optical character recognition software; Sampling methods; Signal synthesis; Speech synthesis; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems, 1995., Proceedings of the Eighth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Lubbock, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7117-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.1995.465409

Filename

465409