Universal access to communication and learning: The role of automatic speech recognition

Universal Access in the Information Society

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 435-447

  Wald, Mike ^a   Bain, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accessible multimedia; Automatic speech recognition; Communication; Learning; Synchronised speech and text

Indexed keywords

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TEACHING; TEXT PROCESSING;

ACCESSIBLE MULTIMEDIA; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; UNIVERSAL ACCESS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 38949095459     PISSN: 16155289     EISSN: 16155297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10209-007-0093-9     Document Type: Article

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