Talking Books in Reading Instruction and Student Behavior

Of Books and Reading.

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Understanding Instruction Books and Programs

This paper takes the form of a dialog between two ‘super-observers’ SO1 and SO2 discussing a modified Chinese Room experiment to conduct an examination of seldom-discussed artefacts, the instruction manual and/or the computer program in the room. SO2 – So what’s all this about? SO1 – This is an experiment to measure whether or not it is possible to build an ‘artificial intelligence’. What do yo...

An Approach to Natural Language Equation Reading in Digital Talking Books

Mathematic equations are, of necessity, a must in any mathematic textbooks but also in physics, communications and, in general, in any technology related texts. Furthermore, their usage in Digital Talking Books (DTB) can be eased if its corresponding counterpart in both text and/or spoken forms can be automatically generated. Therefore, an automatic system to translate or convert them into text...

Interactions with talking books: phonological awareness affects boys' use of talking books

A Flexible Interface Architecture for Digital Talking Books a Flexible Interface Architecture for Digital Talking Books

Talking books, besides helping the blind and print-disabled communities to have easier access to books, also allow reading in situations when the vision becomes temporarily unavailable, for instance, while driving. In this paper, we present a user interface model-based architecture for digital talking books. The books allow for multimodal interaction in an effort to broaden the usage scope. Con...