1. How can speech technology be used to help people with disabilities?
Cooperation and working together

2. Content Language Technology Speech Technology Speech Synthesis
Speech Recognition
Assistive Technology
Learning Disabilitiy

3. Language Technology

4. We teach computers to communicate with people!
Language Technology
human language technology
encompasses computational methods, computer programs and electronic devices
analysing, producing or modifying texts and speech
We teach computers to communicate with people!

5. Language Technology
Goal: create software products that have some knowledge of human language
natural language interfaces
communication between people with different mother tongues
original aim: fully automatic translation between different languages 5

6. Language Technology natural language processing (NLP)
computational linguistics (CL)
speech technology

7. Speech Technology

8. Speech Technology designed to duplicate and respond to the human voice
game software
aid marketing goods
service by telephone
communication with computers without a keyboard
aids to voice-disabled, hearing-disabled and blind people

9. Speech Technology Subfields speech synthesis speech recognition
speaker recognition
speaker verification
speech encoding

10. Speech Synthesis

11. Speech Synthesis computer-generated simulation of human speech
translate written information into aural information
mobile applications
assists the vision-impaired
content can be read aloud

12. Speech Synthesis tool for artificial production of human speech:
speech computer or speech synthesizer
text-to-speech (TTS): converts normal language text into speech
helpful for people with visual impairments or reading disabilities
allows them to listen to written words

13. Speech Synthesis

14. Speech Synthesis Homer Dudley's VODER (Voice Operating Demonstrator)
1939 at the World's Fair in New York
first device that could generate human speech electronically
composition of every speech sound was done manually

15. Speech Recognition

16. Speech Recognition
ability of a machine or program to identify words and phrases in spoken language and convert them to a machine-readable format
automatic speech recognition (ASR)
computer speech recognition
speech to text (STT)

17. Speech Recognition speaker dependent / speaker independent systems
easy to use and available for everyone
inable to capture words due to variations of pronunciation
lack of support for most languages
inability to sort through background noise
leads to inaccuracies

18. Speech Recognition speech-to-text processing voice dialing
voice search

19. Assistive Technology

20. Assistive Technology
item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities
different disabilities require different assistive technologies

21. Assistive Technology positioning devices / keyboards (hardware)
screen readers / communication programs (software)
special learning materials
educational software
wheelchairs
braces
etc.

22. Assistive Technology helps people who have difficulties in speaking
typing
writing
remembering
seeing
hearing
learning
walking

23. Learning Disability
Assistive Technology for people with Learning Disabilities is defined as any device, piece of equipment or system that helps to work around or compensate for any individual’s specific learning deficits
AT doesn’t cure or eliminate difficulties, but it allows to capitalize the strengths and bypass areas of difficulty

24. Learning Disability
Learning problems addressed by assistive technology:
Listening
Math
Organization and memory
Reading
Writing

25. Learning Disability Proofreading programs Word-predicition programs
Speech-recognition programs
Speech synthesizer / screen readers
Talking spell checkers and electronic dictionaries

26. Learning Disability Variable-speed tape recorders
Alternative keyboards
Optical character recognition
Abbreviation expanders
Audio books and publications

27. Sources http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/speech-recognition
learning-disabilities-overview

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