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Transforming DITA topics for speech synthesis output

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Aidan Kehoe,

Ian PittAuthors Info & Claims

HT '07: Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

Pages 147 - 148

https://doi.org/10.1145/1286240.1286279

Published: 10 September 2007 Publication History

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Speech technology can be used to enhance user assistance systems by making help information more accessible. In this paper we describe our implementation of a transform that converts DITA topics to SSML/SAPI documents, thus allowing the assistance topics to be presented to users via speech synthesis.

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Transforming DITA topics for speech synthesis output
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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HT '07: Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

September 2007

240 pages

ISBN:9781595938206

DOI:10.1145/1286240

General Chair:
Simon Harper
University of Manchester, UK
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Helen Ashman
The University of South Australia, Australia
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Mark Bernstein
Eastgate Systems, USA
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Alexandra Cristea
The University of Warwick, UK
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Hugh C. Davis
University of Southampton, UK
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Paul De Bra
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Vicki Hanson
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
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Dave Millard
University of Southampton, UK

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