| Presentation | 2002/7/22 BEP; Japanese and English text-to-speech System for the Japanese Visually Impaired Takayuki WATANABE, Koichi INOUE, Masanori KIRIAKE, |
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| Abstract(in English) | Visually impaired (blind) people use a computer with its text-to-speech (TTS) functions. Their needs for TTS functions are different from the ones of speech dialog. The authors have developed a new bilingual, Japanese and English TTS system based on Emacspeak to meet the requirements of Japanese visually impaired computer users. The current system, BEP (Bilingual Emacspeak Platform), can speak English with native English or Japanese English pronunciation and has three bilingual modes to speak bilingual information. The current paper firstly summarizes the requirements of Japanese visually impaired users for TTS functions and then describes the outline of BEP. |
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| Keyword(in English) | bilingual / text-to-speech system / Emacs / open source / Japanese / English |
| Paper # | TL2002-12 |
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| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2002/7/22(1days) |
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| Registration To | Thought and Language (TL) |
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| Language | JPN |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
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| Title (in English) | BEP; Japanese and English text-to-speech System for the Japanese Visually Impaired |
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| Keyword(1) | bilingual |
| Keyword(2) | text-to-speech system |
| Keyword(3) | Emacs |
| Keyword(4) | open source |
| Keyword(5) | Japanese |
| Keyword(6) | English |
| 1st Author's Name | Takayuki WATANABE |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Dept. Communication, College of Culture and Communication, Tokyo Woman's Christian University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Koichi INOUE |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | ARGV |
| 3rd Author's Name | Masanori KIRIAKE |
| 3rd Author's Affiliation | ARGV |
| Date | 2002/7/22 |
| Paper # | TL2002-12 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.102 |
| Number (no) | 254 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 8 |
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