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Project Type/Research Category: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Phase I.
Funding Priority: Technology for Access and Function.
For more information on NIDRR's funding priorities, read about NIDRR's Core Areas of Research at http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/core-area.html.
Internet Access by Using Any Phone and User’s Voice: Accessibility to Blind, Visually Impaired, and Dyslexic People.
This project has completed its research activities and is now closed. Check REHABDATA for documents.
InternetSpeech.
5942 Foligno Way.
San Jose, CA 95138.
E-mail: emdad@internetspeech.com.
URL(s): http://www.internetspeech.com.
Principal Investigator: Emdad Khan, PhD.
PI Phone: 408/532-9630.
Public Contact Phone: 408/532-8460.
Fax: 408/274-8151.
Project Number: H133S050097.
Start Date: October 1, 2005.
Length: 6 months.
NIDRR Officer: Phillip Beatty, PhD.
NIDRR Funding: FY 05 $74,300.
Abstract:
This project provides people with visual impairments or dyslexia with a “rendering” technique that allows them to easily access the Internet using any telephone and without using a computer. The research is based on an existing Voice Internet solution, which many blind and visually impaired people have used successfully. An Intelligent Agent is used to provide contents from the Internet using proper rendering of the visual Internet in real time to concise and meaningful audio or text. Rendering is achieved by using page highlights, finding right as well as only relevant contents on a linked page, assembling right contents from a linked page, and providing easy navigation. Consumer input is used to modify and improve the system as it is developed.
Descriptors: Accessible media, Internet.
Documents in REHABDATA:
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