| Presentation | 2003/5/16 Study on the Use of Auditory Media for the Blind Megumi KOMABA, Fuminori NISHIZAWA, Kenji KOBAYASHI, Kazuo KAMATA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | The blind people cannot use visual channel to get information such about written text and surroundings. The idea of the media conversion that changes visual information into auditory one is widely utilised. The question arises is whether these assistive technologies based on just the idea of media conversion works well in a real situation. In this report, we discuss two issues that relate to the question. The first one is the issue of text-to-speech systems that use speech signals. Homophones in a text will cause cognitive stress. We investigate the frequency in use of homophones in a newspaper, and show it is around 3%. The second issue is sound signal, speech and/or nonspeech one, used as auditory information for indoor orientation and mobility (OM). We show certain problems in OM from the viewpoint of getting auditory signals with good accuracy and quality. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | Blind people / Auditory signal / Visual signal / Text-to-speech |
| Paper # | SITE2003-1 |
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| Conference Date | 2003/5/16(1days) |
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| Registration To | Social Implications of Technology and Information Ethics (SITE) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | Study on the Use of Auditory Media for the Blind |
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| Keyword(1) | Blind people |
| Keyword(2) | Auditory signal |
| Keyword(3) | Visual signal |
| Keyword(4) | Text-to-speech |
| 1st Author's Name | Megumi KOMABA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Utsunomiya University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Fuminori NISHIZAWA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Utsunomiya University |
| 3rd Author's Name | Kenji KOBAYASHI |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | Lance |
| 4th Author's Name | Kazuo KAMATA |
| 4th Author's Affiliation | Utsunomiya University |
| Date | 2003/5/16 |
| Paper # | SITE2003-1 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.103 |
| Number (no) | 78 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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