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A web-based system for automatic reading of technical documents focused on vision-impaired primary-school students is presented in the paper. An overview of the system, both its backend (used by teachers to create and manage the documents) and frontend (used by students for viewing and reading the documents), is given. Text-to-speech synthesis utilised for the automatic reading and, especially, the automatic processing of mathematical and physical formulas are described as well.
Project ARET CZ.1.07/1.2.00/08.0021 is co-funded by the European Social Fund and the State Budget of the Czech Republic. Support was also provided by the University of West Bohemia, project No. SGS-2010-054.
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Matoušek, J., Hanzlíček, Z., Campr, M., Krňoul, Z., Campr, P., Grůber, M. (2011). Web-Based System for Automatic Reading of Technical Documents for Vision Impaired Students. In: Habernal, I., Matoušek, V. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6836. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23538-2_46
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