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Speakr: auditory skimming and scrolling

Published: 23 October 2006 Publication History

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The widespread use of portable devices has led to the resurgence of speech interfaces. There is a crucial difference between the visual and auditory presentation of text. If text is presented visually, the user can skim and scroll through the content to locate relevant information. Audio output is usually presented sequentially with media player controls. For synthesized text a much more precise control is required. Actually the ability to skim and scroll through speech or auditory output will be crucial to the deployment speech output. Speakr is a speech synthesis system which permits different levels of skimming in speech outputs produced using speech synthesis. Speakr exploits the availability of the underlying text representation. Different aspects of the text representation - typographic conventions, markups, syntax, semantics, etc. - are used to achieve skim and scroll effects.

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B. Arons. An annotated bibliography of interactive speech user interfaces. http://xenia.media.mit.edu/barons/AronsAnnotatedBibliography.html

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  • (2018)Skim-reading Strategies in Sighted and Visually-Impaired IndividualsProceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference10.1145/3197768.3201535(170-177)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2018

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MM '06: Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimedia
October 2006
1072 pages
ISBN:1595934472
DOI:10.1145/1180639
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Published: 23 October 2006

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  1. auditory scrolling
  2. auditory skimming

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MM06: The 14th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2006
October 23 - 27, 2006
CA, Santa Barbara, USA

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  • (2018)Skim-reading Strategies in Sighted and Visually-Impaired IndividualsProceedings of the 11th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference10.1145/3197768.3201535(170-177)Online publication date: 26-Jun-2018

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