About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: Computer accessibility, Screen readers, Speech synthesis, Refreshable Braille display, Features of the Opera web browser, FreeTrack, Haskins Laboratories, Microsoft Speech API, Speech generating device, Philip Rubin, Articulatory synthesis, PlainTalk, Chinese speech synthesis, Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine, Comparison of screen readers, VoiceXML, Texas Instruments LPC Speech Chips, JAWS, WordQ+SpeakQ, Franklin Seaney Cooper, Microsoft Agent, IVONA, Comparison of speech synthesizers, Mouse keys, Quack.com, Switch access scanning, Gnuspeech, Disabled Children's Computer Group, Festival Speech Synthesis System, Freedom Machines, ESpeak, Pattern playback, NonVisual Desktop Access, Datahand, AccessApps, Silent speech interface, Ignatius Mattingly, Currah, Magnifier, TuVox, Voice font, Microsoft text-to-speech voices, RIAS, Readspeaker, VoiceOver, DECtalk, VoiceWeb, Mobile Speak, Inverse filter, Catherine Browman, CoolSpeech, Gunnar Fant, Fire Vox, Phase vocoder, BrowseAloud, Voiceroid, Dolphin Computer Access, FreeTTS, Text-to-voice, Speech Synthesis Markup Language, Microsoft Narrator, Window-eyes, Source-filter model of speech production, StickyKeys, Software Automatic Mouth, Voice browser, Orca, Sinewave synthesis, Dr. Sbaitso, Self-voicing, Concatenative synthesis, MBROLA, PSOLA, DialogOS, WebAnywhere, Microsoft Speech Server, Accessaphone, Virtual Magnifying Glass, AOLbyPhone, Odiogo, Gnome Speech, Echo 2, KDE Accessibility Project, Talk It!, Half-Keyboard, Phasor, Bounce keys, Slow keys, OutSPOKEN, Thunder, ReadPlease. Excerpt: Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symb...
