a guide for the volunteers of recording talking books

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...

investigating the feasibility of a proposed model for geometric design of deployable arch structures

deployable scissor type structures are composed of the so-called scissor-like elements (sles), which are connected to each other at an intermediate point through a pivotal connection and allow them to be folded into a compact bundle for storage or transport. several sles are connected to each other in order to form units with regular polygonal plan views. the sides and radii of the polygons are...

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...

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

Usability Evaluation of Digital Talking Books

In this paper we present the results of a set of usability evaluation studies on Digital Talking Books. Digital Talking Books aim to provide better access to literary content for the blind and visually impaired. Departing from their digital base, we developed enriched books, targeting broader audiences and usage situations. The books can be enriched with different media content, like images and...