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New Environment for Visually Disabled Students to Access Scientific Information by Combining Speech Interface and Tactile Graphics

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2006)

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We recently developed a math document editor with a function of speech output. Using this software named “ChattyInfty,” visually disabled students not only can read scientific documents including math expressions with speech output but also can author or edit them. One of remarkable features of ChattyInfty is its availability of recognition results by our math OCR system. By combining them, we construct a system to enable students with visual disabilities to access scientific documents in print for themselves. Furthermore, using tactile graphic tools, we realize an environment in which they can grasp and correct recognition errors without any aid of sighted people.

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  1. Junior College Funabashi Campus, Nihon University, 7-24-1 Narashinodai, Funabashi, Chiba, 274-8501, Japan

    Toshihiko Komada, Katsuhito Yamaguchi & Fukashi Kawane

  2. Faculty of Mathematics, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, 812-8521, Japan

    Masakazu Suzuki

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, Johannes Kepler Universität, Altenbergerstraße 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang L. Zagler

  4. The Universal Math Access Lab, University of San Francisco, 281 Masonic San Francisco, 94117, CA, USA

    Arthur I. Karshmer

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Komada, T., Yamaguchi, K., Kawane, F., Suzuki, M. (2006). New Environment for Visually Disabled Students to Access Scientific Information by Combining Speech Interface and Tactile Graphics. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4061. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11788713_171

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