Interactions with talking books: phonological awareness affects boys' use of talking books

Interactions with talking books: phonological awareness affects boys' use of talking books

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Modular Production of Rich Digital Talking Books Modular Production of Rich Digital Talking Books

This paper presents a framework for automatic production of rich Digital Talking Books (DTB). The production process converts existing audio tapes and OCR-based digitalization of text books into full-fledged, multiple synchronized, multimodal digital books. The framework deals with the content organization processes and User Interface definition. The first one identifies content units and its r...

A Flexible Interface Architecture for Digital Talking Books a Flexible Interface Architecture for Digital Talking Books

Talking books, besides helping the blind and print-disabled communities to have easier access to books, also allow reading in situations when the vision becomes temporarily unavailable, for instance, while driving. In this paper, we present a user interface model-based architecture for digital talking books. The books allow for multimodal interaction in an effort to broaden the usage scope. Con...

Towards a repository of digital talking books

Considerable effort has been devoted at to increase and broaden our speech and text data resources. Digital Talking Books (DTB), comprising both speech and text data are, as such, an invaluable asset as multimedia resources. Furthermore, those DTB have been under a speech-to-text alignment procedure, either word or phone-based, to increase their potential in research activities. This paper thus...