Design, implementation and evaluation of a scanned Filipino text-to-speech device as a reading aid for the blind and visually impaired

• Main Authors: De Leon, Christian Paulo L., Gatchalian, Allan Adrian B., Ninobla, Juan Miguel D., Concepcion, Nigel Roi D., Catemprate, David Joseph O., Pascual, Ronald M.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Text-to-speech software; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/5764
• Institution: De La Salle University

In this study, the authors provide new insights to the design, implementation and evaluation of a TTS system where the inputs are text images in Filipino. Many text-to-speech (TTS) systems have been studied and implemented in many languages. Portable devices for Filipino TTS however have not been ex...