Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
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- Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
- Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) is a W3C standard XML-based markup language for controlling the rendering of synthetic speech by text-to-speech (TTS) engines. SSML provides tags for specifying…
- Speech Synthesizer (Speech Synthesiser, Text-to-Speech Engine, TTS Engine, Voice Synthesizer)
- Software or hardware that converts text into spoken audio output, producing artificial speech that can be used to read content aloud. Speech synthesizers are a fundamental component of many assistive …
- Speech Therapy (Speech-Language Therapy, Speech Pathology, Speech-Language Intervention)
- Clinical intervention provided by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, communication, and swallowing disorders. For speech sound disorders, effective tr…
- Speech User Interface (SUI, Voice User Interface, VUI)
- A user interface that enables interaction with a computer or device primarily through spoken language rather than through physical input devices like keyboards, mice, or touchscreens. Speech user inte…
- Speech Visualization (Visual Speech Display, Speech-to-Visual Display)
- Speech visualization refers to techniques that convert spoken language into visual representations to aid comprehension, particularly for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. These displays ca…
- Speech and Language Therapist (SLT, Speech-Language Pathologist, SLP)
- A healthcare professional who assesses, diagnoses, and treats communication and swallowing disorders. Speech and language therapists play a critical role in the assistive technology ecosystem by evalu…
- Speech and Language Therapy (SLT, Speech-Language Pathology, SLP, Speech Therapy)
- A healthcare discipline focused on assessing and treating communication difficulties including speech, language, voice, fluency, and swallowing disorders. Speech and language therapists work with peop…
- Speech disorder (Speech impairment, Communication disorder)
- A condition that affects an individual's ability to produce speech sounds correctly or fluently, encompassing articulation disorders, fluency disorders, and voice disorders. Speech disorders are signi…
- Speech-Based Cursor Control (Voice Cursor Control, Speech-Driven Pointing)
- A method of controlling a computer's pointing cursor using spoken voice commands rather than a mouse, trackpad, or other physical pointing device. Users speak directional commands (such as "move left,…
- Speech-Based Cursor Movement (Voice-Controlled Cursor, Voice Cursor Control)
- A technique for moving the on-screen cursor using voice commands rather than physical manipulation of a pointing device. Speech-based cursor movement systems typically use one of two approaches: discr…
- Speech-Based Navigation (Audio Navigation, Speech-Based Web Navigation)
- A method of navigating digital content, particularly web pages, using synthesised speech output rather than visual display. In speech-based navigation, users listen to content read aloud sequentially …
- Speech-Generating Device (SGD, Voice Output Communication Aid, VOCA)
- An electronic AAC device that produces spoken output from text or symbol input, enabling people with speech disabilities to communicate verbally with others. Speech-generating devices range from dedic…
- Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP, Speech Therapist, Speech-Language Therapist)
- A healthcare professional who assesses, diagnoses, and treats communication and swallowing disorders across the lifespan. In the context of accessibility, SLPs play a central role in AAC intervention …
- Speech-Language Pathology (SLP, Speech Therapy, Speech-Language Therapy)
- A healthcare profession focused on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of communication disorders, speech disorders, language disorders, cognitive-communication disorders, and swallowing difficul…
- Speech-Language Therapy (Speech Therapy, SLT, Speech-Language Pathology)
- A clinical practice focused on assessing and treating communication disorders including speech, language, voice, fluency, and swallowing difficulties. Speech-language therapists (or speech-language pa…
- Speech-Like Vocalization (SLV)
- A sound produced by a person that can be phonetically transcribed based on the conventions of a spoken language, distinguishing it from non-speech-like vocalizations such as grunts, screeches, or voca…
- Speech-Reading (Lip-Reading, Lipreading, Visual Speech Perception)
- The practice of understanding spoken language by visually interpreting the movements of the lips, face, tongue, and jaw of the speaker, along with contextual cues such as facial expressions and body l…
- Speech-language pathology (SLP, Speech therapy, Speech-language therapy)
- Speech-language pathology is the clinical discipline concerned with the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of communication and swallowing disorders, including speech sound production, language comp…
- Speech-modulated Typography (Speech-driven Typography, Prosody-driven Typography)
- A design technique in which the visual properties of text — typically font weight, width, or size on a variable-font axis — are modulated in real time by features extracted from a corresponding speech…
- Speech-to-Sign Translation (Spoken Language to Sign Language Translation)
- The process of automatically converting spoken language into sign language output, typically displayed through a signing avatar or animated character. Speech-to-sign translation involves three major c…