The present research aims to build an MSA audio-visual corpus. The corpus is annotated both phonetically and visually and dedicated to emotional speech processing studies. The building of the corpus consists of 5 main stages: speaker selection, sentences selection, recording, annotation and evaluation. 500 sentences were critically selected based on their phonemic distribution. The speaker was ...

This study investigated the comparative effects of audio-visually prompted collaborative dialogue on the listening comprehension development of symmetrical, asymmetrical, and asymmetrical teacher-fronted EFL learner groups. Besides, it explored the attitude of the participants of the groups concerning the effectiveness of collaborative dialogue for their listening comprehension improvement. The...

The article deals with the assistive technologies that can be used by visually-impaired students to master Business English. research aimed at developing a special academic course would allow visually-challenged interact their groupmates during distance learning. author developed an audio book called English: Audio Materials for Visually-Impaired Students and based new on existing technologies....

VISTA is a visually oriented, interactive environment for parallelizing sequential programs at the instruction level for execution on ne-grain architectures. Fully automatic parallelization techniques often perform well, but may not be able to achieve the strict performance and code size requirements needed for some critical applications. In such cases, manual manipulation by an expert user can...

The purpose of the present study was first to offer a tentative solution to the problems observed in writing pedagogy in Iran by devising a more comprehensive approach to genre-based writing instruction. In the second phase, a quasi-experimental research design was adopted to determine how effective the model was in writing instruction, compared with the traditional, product-oriented approach, ...

The design of information presentation on the web is predominately visual-oriented. This presentation approach requires most, if not all, of the user’s attention and imposes considerable cognitive load on a user. This approach is not always practical, especially for the visually impaired persons. The focus of this project is to develop a prototype which supports web browsing using a speech-base...

Spatial information presented visually is not easily accessible to visually impaired users. Current technologies, such as screen readers, cannot intuitively convey spatial layout or structure. This lack of overview is an obstacle for a visually impaired user, both when using the computer individually and when collaborating with other users. With the development of haptic and audio technologies,...

An ergonomical evaluation of a multimodal windows-oriented interface that gives blind and "visually occupied" persons access to graphical user interfaces. Physical models are used to represent interface features providing haptic informations, thanks to a force-feedback device, and nonspeech audio. In the absence of vision, both auditory and haptic modalities are used, to perform manipulation ta...