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[gnuspeech-contact] Updated TouchNTalk sources include useful tools
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David Hill |
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[gnuspeech-contact] Updated TouchNTalk sources include useful tools |
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Wed, 13 May 2009 08:56:03 -0700 |
The material in the SVN repository related to the haptic/
proprioceptive/auditory computer screen interface for the visually
impaired -- "TouchNTalk" -- has been significantly updated using
recently recovered original files, and includes some useful tools.
The software, all now GPL v.3, was developed as an application of the
gnuspeech text-to-speech software within the computer human systems
group at the university of Calgary (and later as a technology
transfer project by the university spinoff company Trillium Sound
Research Inc.), and is the subject of a paper in the IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics that may be accessed on-
line at:
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill/papers/ieee-touch-n-talk-1988.pdf
The material includes the full sources for TouchNTalk, the full
TabletKit, GrooveSliderPalette, tone generator, sample files, and PDF
user manual. The work involved a number of researchers over several
years including myself (David Hill) as project leader, Christiane
Grebe (neƩ Dohrn, my graduate student who completed her MSc on the
project), Dalmazio Brisinda (who was responsible for developing the
tools, as well as the most recent NeXTStep incarnation), Sheldon
Maloff (who produced the original Atari 1040ST version), together
with Ken Griffin, Richard Esau, and Shabu Hassiens. The application
represents several person-years of effort. The work included human
factors evaluation with both normally sighted subjects who were
blindfolded, and subjects with complete visual impairment, the
results of which are included in the paper mentioned above.
The software is considered part of the gnuspeech project, for what I
hope are obvious reasons. Like the text-to-speech core of the work,
the software was originally developed for the NeXT computer under
NeXTStep but will be ported to GNU/Linux under GnuStep (and also to
the Macintosh). Please let me know if you would be able to help.
David Hill
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