AUDIOBOOK PRODUCTION APP USING SPEECH SYNTHESIS FOR BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED IN INDONESIA

• Main Author: Yudi Gunawan, Jonathan
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/66595
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Technology is changing our world at an astonishing pace. With technology giving us unprecedented access to information, we can learn as much as we want. Unlike the normally sighted, people with visual impairment, blind or visually impaired (BVI), need special treatment for accessing information in the text form. In the most cases, BVI access informations via audio. Several attempts to distribute information have been carried out, by the community or privately, through digital or conventional media. Attempts were successful but still cannot cover the entire BVI community, especially those in Indonesia. This research project aims to develop an ecosystem of softwares to improve the distribution of information to BVI in the form of audio books. This paper focuses on the development of production tools used by non-BVI teachers. This paper will also includes the development of an intermediary server that authenticates and gives access for user to the resulting audiobook. The research starts by gathering system requirements, system design, system implementation, integration of all system components, until completing testing. The needs and requirements of the application were obtained from a population of BVI community in Bandung, and then processed into a system design. Implementation and integration of the design resulted in a complete ecosystem that can be applied to BVI community. System testing was done on various sample files. The resulting audio books are successfully stored online and can be accessed via the mobile application. Overall, the research project resulted in a system that works well, but the system developed has not been published widely.