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| Title | Incorporating Speech Synthesis in the Development of a Mobile Platform for e-learning. |
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| Authors | Justus Roux, Pieter Scholtz, Daleen Klop, Claus Povlsen, Bart Jongejan and Asta Magnusdottir |
| Abstract | This presentation and accompanying demonstration focuses on the development ofa mobile platform for e-learning purposes with enhanced text-to-speechcapabilities. It reports on an international consortium project entitledMobile E-learning for Africa (MELFA), which includes a reading and literacytraining component, particularly focusing on an African language, isiXhosa. The high penetration rate of mobile phones within the African continent hascreated new opportunities for delivering various kinds of information,including e-learning material to communities that have not had appropriateinfrastructures. Aspects of the mobile platform development are describedpaying attention to basic functionalities of the user interface, as well as tothe underlying web technologies involved. Some of the main features of theliteracy training module are described, such as grapheme-sound correspondence,syllabification-sound relationships, varying tempo of presentation. Aparticular point is made for using HMM (HTS) synthesis in this case, as itseems to be very appropriate for less resourced languages. |
| Language | Other |
| Topics | Speech Synthesis, Tools, systems, applications, Other |
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Incorporating Speech Synthesis in the Development of a Mobile Platform for e-learning. |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ROUX10.103, author = {Justus Roux, Pieter Scholtz, Daleen Klop, Claus Povlsen, Bart Jongejan and Asta Magnusdottir}, title = {Incorporating Speech Synthesis in the Development of a Mobile Platform for e-learning.}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |