Audible Outputs of Reading Machines for the Blind
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The objective of the research reported below is the improvement of the intelligibility and naturalness of speech produced by an automatic synthesis-by-rule system. Such a system would be a major component of a reading machine for the blind . Work is reported below on the development and testing of a synthesis program and of rules for synthesis, and on phonetic investigations in support of rule development.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006