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Wikiaudia: Crowd-sourcing the Production of Audio and Digital Books
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Venkatesh, Ashwini Lalitha, M. V. Narayana, J. Lakshmi Mahesh, Kavi |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | ď€ Abstract–Audiobooks are an indispensable aid in making books accessible to people with special needs such as visually challenged, elderly and those afflicted with problems of dyslexia and agraphia. Audiobooks are currently generated manually for the most part with consequent dependency on individuals having to invest substantial amounts of time and effort to read out an entire book. Automation in the form of textto-speech, on the other hand, is available primarily in English and other European languages and is still inferior in quality and accuracy to human voice. In this context, this project designed and built a platform for crowd-sourcing the production of audio books in any language, particularly in several languages of India. It also provides a useful feature of generating Unicode text of the books thereby contributing to better preservation of classical and out-of-print books with the added advantage of search and browse functions which are currently not possible in "digital libraries" containing only scanned images of books. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.iaeng.org/publication/IMECS2015/IMECS2015_pp90-95.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |