Abstract
The Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) content is gradually gaining popularity among the visually impaired, according to “The Act on the Elimination of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities” enforced in Japan since April 2016. However, compilation of DAISY-formatted e-books, generally undertaken by volunteers, is time-consuming, and forces users to wait a long time for the delivery of such books, which they might want to read as soon as possible. Therefore, we attempted to improve this situation by providing a text-to-speech (TTS)-based DAISY content creation tool to volunteers. To practically evaluate our concept, we ran a web application site from Fall 2013 to the end of 2015. The site provides a transliteration system that converts plain text to DAISY content, including formatted HTML and audio data, by using TTS technology. The results of the practical evaluation were demonstrated in this study, and show the effectiveness of our proposal method.
DaisyRings™ is a trademark of Toshiba Corporation.
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Fume, K., Kuroda, Y., Ashikawa, T., Morita, M. (2016). Practical Evaluation of DaisyRings: Text-to-Speech-Based DAISY Content Creation System. In: Miesenberger, K., Bühler, C., Penaz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41264-1_55
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