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Many people have some sort of disability which impairs their ability to communicate, thus with all their intelligence they are not able to participate in conferences or meeting proceedings and consequently inhibit in a way their contributions to development of the nation. Work in alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) devices attempts to...
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... The result of their study also indicated clearly the novelty of speech processing in enhancing human computer interaction and simplification. In addition, Kabari & Atu (2015) designed a speech to text based system for assisting people with disabilities in attending workshops and conference by reading out typed text to people with disabilities. The system is similar to the proposed application in this paper. ...
This research paper presents a speech-based airline reservation passenger data confirmation system that confirms the data entered by passengers or reservation agents at the time of ticket reservation through speech processing. This is most important as any discrepancy in data on travel itinerary and passengers travel documents automatically leads to denial of boarding and traveling to passengers. In addition to this system being developed, a survey on top international airlines ticketing reservation system was carried out, and the result revealed that only form field validation that ensures non-null entries on compulsory fields is the sole mechanism for ensuring passengers data accuracy at the time of reservation. This existing technique can only ensure that data was entered in the compulsory field, but cannot ascertain if the data entered is correct and void of typographical errors. This further proves the imminent need to integrate speech processing into the existing airline ticket reservation passenger data confirmation system, to ensure enforcement of non-null entries in compulsory fields as well as confirm vocally to passengers and reservation agents the data they have entered for accuracy, before final reservation is made.
A text-to-speech (TTS) system which we refer to as Artificial Interpreter, And of course an area of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Natural language processing, converts normal language text into speech; other systems render symbolic linguistic representations like phonetic transcriptions into speech. We have developed a cloud enhanced system that converts texts into audio. The system was developed using JavaScript as the programming language with HTML5 and CSS for the interface design. JavaScript is used because it is a client-side programming language for web applications. JavaScript is robust with a good number of speech synthesis libraries that can be used to build robust text to speech systems a cloud. JavaScript is also lightweight in comparison with other high-level programming languages that support web application development, e.g Java Applet. We have been able to successfully convert plain text files into audio using this system when uploaded into the system via the file upload form or when copied and pasted into the system. This developed software can be accessed by users all over the world ubiquitously and is supported on major desktop and hand-held devices once it"s connected to the web. This app will be of great help to lecturers and students in the classroom environment; e-libraries and computer aided learning for physically challenged users.
