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Wikipedia Is Launching Speech Engine for the Visually Impaired Users!

by John Casper
-- March 13, 2016
Wikipedia Is Launching Speech Engine for the Visually Impaired Users!

We all love Wikipedia and this open source encyclopedia exists everywhere in the world. And that now incorporates individuals whose vision is not adequate to permit them to peruse printed content. On account of another open source project, the general population’s reference book is adding a content-to-speech function that will take into account certain parts of Wiki entries to be perused so anyone might hear, empowering those with vision impairments — additionally the individuals who are learning braille — to take advantage of the endless information base of the Internet too. Inconceivably, this eager venture is slated to be off the ground by 2017, at which time English, Swedish, and Arabic speakers will have the capacity to hear and also read Wikipedia posts.

“We will build an open framework where any open source speech synthesizer can be plugged in. Since it is open source modules, it will also be possible to add or substitute certain modules in the Text-to-Speech system (TTS),” professor Joakim Gustafson, head of KTH.

When it comes to the point of joint effort between the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and the free reference book, the discourse unification stage is as of now being made by researchers in Stockholm, and once it’s prepared, Wikipedia will have these discourse blend servers, and consequently build up a stage upgraded for this new device. The product will further be made open source and promptly accessible to any individual who needs it if they utilize the MediaWiki programming.

“INITIALLY OUR FOCUS WILL BE ON THE SWEDISH LANGUAGE, WHERE WE WILL MAKE USE OF OUR OWN LANGUAGE RESOURCES.” Said by Gustafson.

And it’s confirmed that, with the 280 more languages in any source unlike Wikipedia entries, there’s still a way to go. But this is true that somewhere and some places we might find this feature extremely amazing. So, let’s wait for it.

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