LINGUIST List 14.3290

Sat Nov 29 2003

Media: BBC: Talking Newspapers for the Blind

Editor for this issue: Steve Moran <stevelinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Karen Chung, Media: BBC: Talking newspapers for the blind

 The BBC Web site has a piece, dated Tuesday, 25 November 2003,
entitled:

Talking newspapers get human 'voice'
by Geoff Adams-Spink

 An excerpt:

 Partially-sighted and blind people will be able to get
time-sensitive information from newspapers and magazines from a device
which reads to them, instead of relying on recorded tapes.
 Rhetorical produces the synthetic voices by having someone read a
standard script.
 The various sounds are then "sliced and diced" and used in the
company's speech engine.

 The URL:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3233340.stm


 Karen Steffen Chung
 http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/
 http://www.topica.com/lists/phonetics/