An Approach to Producing New Languages for Talking Applications for Use by Blind People

  • Authors:

  • David Gareth Evans;K. Polyzoaki;Paul Blenkhorn

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICCHP '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper describes an approach that allows text-to-speech synthesisers to be produced for new languages for use with assistive applications. The approach uses a simple rule-based text-to-phoneme stage. The phonemes are passed to an existing phoneme-to-speech system for another language. We show that the match between the language to be synthesised and the language on which the phoneme-to-speech system is important for the perceived quality of the speech but not necessarily the understandability of speech.