Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• A System for Creating Personalized Synthetic Voices

  Debra Yarrington, Chris Pennington, John Gray, H. Timothy Bunnell (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper presents the ModelTalker Voice Creation System, a tool that enables individuals to create personalized synthetic voices with unrestricted vocabulary for use in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices. The system addresses …

  • speech synthesis
  • voice banking
  • AAC
  • amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  • text-to-speech
  • personalized voice
  • assistive technology
  • concatenative synthesis