An improved auditory interface for the exploration of lists
MULTIMEDIA '97 Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Multimedia
An interactive method for accessing tables in HTML
Assets '98 Proceedings of the third international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
An automated approach for retrieving hierarchical data from HTML tables
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Improving the accessibility of aurally rendered HTML tables
Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Navigation of HTML tables, frames, and XML fragments
Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies
Mining tables from large scale HTML texts
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Rendering tables in audio: the interaction of structure and reading styles
Assets '04 Proceedings of the 6th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Acoustic Rendering of Data Tables Using Earcons and Prosody for Document Accessibility
UAHCI '09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Part III: Applications and Services
Auditory universal accessibility of data tables using naturally derived prosody specification
Universal Access in the Information Society
Diction based prosody modeling in table-to-speech synthesis
TSD'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
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Document-to-Audio accessibility assumes that all meaningful presentaion elements in the document, such as bold, italics, tables or bullets, should be properly processed and acoustically modeled, in order to convey the intended meaning to the listeners in a complete and adequate manner. Similarly, several types of documents may contain reported speech and dialogue content signaled through punctuation and other visual elements that require further processing before being rendered to speech. This paper explores such dialogue elements in documents, examines their actual indicators and their use, and investigates the most prominent methods for their acoustic modeling, namely the use of prosody manipulation and voice alternation. It further reports on a pilot experiment on the appropriateness of voice alternation as means for the effective spoken rendition of dialogue elements in documents. Results demonstrate a clear listener preference for the "multiple voice" renditions over the ones using a single voice.