14.3290, Media: BBC: Talking Newspapers for the Blind

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Subject: 14.3290, Media: BBC: Talking Newspapers for the Blind

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Date:  Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:47:52 +0800
From:  "Karen Chung" <karchung at ntu.edu.tw>
Subject:  Media: BBC: Talking newspapers for the blind

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Date:  Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:47:52 +0800
From:  "Karen Chung" <karchung at ntu.edu.tw>
Subject:  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/



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