Presentation 2013-12-12
Radio Drama Generation System Intended for Entertainment of Visually Impaired People
Tsubasa KANEKO, Yuri YOSHIDA, Naoyoshi TAMURA,
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Abstract(in English) This paper presents an automatic radio drama generation system from story texts, by which visually impaired people can easily the drama. In these days, access supports, such as screen reader, are well studied for visually impaired people by means of current technologies of the speech synthesis. However, researches for amusements for those people are made light of, against for basic information supports. Our radio drama generation system can produce expressive phonetic data (WAV file) of drama, which consist of synthesized voice data of sentences, varrying characteristics of speaker to speaker, sound effects for described scene, proper BGM and so on. Speaker decision part of the system is experimentally implemented and the results are reported.
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Keyword(in English) Story / Reading / Speech Synthesis / Visual Impairments / Entertainment
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Title (in English) Radio Drama Generation System Intended for Entertainment of Visually Impaired People
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Keyword(1) Story
Keyword(2) Reading
Keyword(3) Speech Synthesis
Keyword(4) Visual Impairments
Keyword(5) Entertainment
1st Author's Name Tsubasa KANEKO
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University()
2nd Author's Name Yuri YOSHIDA
2nd Author's Affiliation Japan Business Systems, Inc.
3rd Author's Name Naoyoshi TAMURA
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
Date 2013-12-12
Paper # WIT2013-66
Volume (vol) vol.113
Number (no) 347
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 4
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