AudioStoryTeller: Enforcing blind children reading skills

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4556 LNCS, Issue PART 3, 2007, Pages 786-795

  Sánchez, Jaime ^a   Galáz, Iván ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Audio; Blind children; Learners with visual disabilities; PDA; PocketPC; Reading skills; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

HANDICAPPED PERSONS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

LEARNERS WITH VISUAL DISABILITIES; READING SKILLS; TEXT-TO-SPEECH;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 38149077235     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_85     Document Type: Conference Paper

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