I Walk: A lightweight navigation system for low-vision users

ASSETS'10 - Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 269-270

  Stent, Amanda ^a   Azenkot, Shiri ^b   Stern, Ben ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Navigation; Speech recognition; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; LOCAL SEARCH; LOW VISION; NAVIGATION SERVICE; SMART PHONES; SPEECH INPUT; STREET SIGNS; TEXT TO SPEECH; VISUAL DISABILITY; WALKING DIRECTION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE SETS; TRAFFIC SIGNS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 78650600385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878803.1878865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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