1. IBM - CVUT Student Research Projects Creating mp3 from text documents & Viewing text information via voice Zlatuška Martin (zlatum1@fel.cvut.cz) Kašpárek Jaroslav (kaspaj7@fel.cvut.cz) Mařan Jiří (maranj1@fel.cvut.cz) Kadlec Antonín (kadlea1@fel.cvut.cz) Příhoda Karel (prihok1@fel.cvut.cz) Meloun Jaroslav (melouj1@fel.cvut.cz)

2. IBM - CVUT Student Research Projects 2 Project goals Creating mp3 from text documents Create mp3 generator, that creates a set of mp3 files with ID3v2 tags, from a text file. In ID3 tag, there will be original synchronized text, chapter names, images and other information Input is a text document, output is compressed directory with mp3 files and images. Project can be expanded for reading wikipedia, certain news portal or email. Viewing text information via voice Design and create multiplatform program for playing mp3s created from text documents Player should have intuitive user interface and can be operated with several voice commands. Player reads given text and allows shifting between paragraphs, chapters or shifting by given keywords.

3. IBM - CVUT Student Research Projects 3 Text→mp3 solution architecture firefox plugin UIMA framework html→texttext→wavwav→mp3ID3 tagszip Server User text URL link on archive with mp3 files

4. IBM - CVUT Student Research Projects 4 Description of text→mp3 solution user sends desired website URL with firefox plugin to text→mp3 server parameters hands over cgi script on the server (following server parts are connected via UIMA framework) html →text – downloads web page and parses it on text paragraphs, headlines and images text →wav – converts text to audio and generates words with time marks wav →mp3 – encodes raw audio to mp3 format ID3 tags – writes synchronized text and other information in ID3 tag zip – packs directory with all generated data and sends a download link back to user

5. IBM - CVUT Student Research Projects 5 MP3 player intuitive user interface speech command interface written in flash PC - linuxPC - windowsPDAsmartphonescarPC VideoVideo with player demonstration multiplatform

6. IBM - CVUT Student Research Projects 6 Project status text→mp3 server parts –text→wav(100%) –wav→mp3(100%) –ID3 tags(100%) –connection via UIMA framework (70%) –html →text (50%) –zip (100%) –cgi skripts (0%) client parts –firefox plugin (80%) mp3 player finished and fully functional tested under windows XP, testing on other platforms is not finished yet usability tests are in progress