Literature Reviews

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

• Loudmouth: Modifying Text-to-Speech Synthesis in Noise

  Rupal Patel, Michael Everett, Eldar Sadikov (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This short paper from Northeastern University presents Loudmouth, a modified text-to-speech synthesizer that emulates the Lombard effect — the natural way humans adjust their speech in noisy environments — to improve synthesized speech intelligibilit…

  • text-to-speech
  • speech synthesis
  • AAC
  • Lombard effect
  • speech intelligibility
  • noise
  • prosody
  • assistive technology