The paper presents the design of an assistive reading tool that integrates read-aloud technology with eye tracking to regulate speed and support struggling readers in following text while listening it. describes rationale this approach, theory auditory–visual integration, terms automatic self-adaptable technique based on reader's gaze provides individualized interaction experience. This has bee...

We present a simple tool that enables the computer to read subtitles of movies and TV shows aloud. The tool extracts information from subtitle files, which can be freely downloaded or extracted from a DVD, and reads the text aloud through a speech synthesizer. The target audience is people who have trouble reading subtitles while watching a movie, for example people with visual impairments and ...

The study concerns how prosody, including pauses, is used to give extra weight to focused words when repeated with successively more emphasis. The analysis is based on the same three-word phrase produced in two different communicative contexts, one a dialogue interaction and one a reading-aloud situation. Results show greater adjustments in the dialogue context. When emphasis was increased, the...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the performance of a multisegment motor task is influenced by reading a segment-specific action word. METHOD Twenty-four participants performed tasks that involved reaching for a bottle, grasping it, lifting and placing it on a shelf, and returning their hand to the starting position. At the initiation of each task, participants read either aloud or silently f...

Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor listens to children read aloud, and helps them learn to read. This paper outlines how it gives feedback, how it uses ASR, and how we measure its accuracy. It describes how we model various aspects of oral reading, some ideas we tried, and lessons we have learned about acoustic models, lexical models, confidence scores, language models, alignment methods, and proso...

A major challenge faced by the blind and visually impaired population is that of wayfinding – the ability of a person to find his or her way to a given destination. We propose a new wayfinding aid based on a camera cell phone, which is held by the user to find and read aloud specially designed machine-readable signs in the environment (labeling locations such as offices and restrooms). Our main...

The Chinese writing system provides an excellent case for testing the contribution of segmental and suprasegmental information in reading words aloud within the same language. In logographic Chinese characters, neither segmental nor tonal information is explicitly represented, whereas in Pinyin, an alphabetic transcription of the character, both are explicitly represented. Two primed naming exp...