ChattyInfty3: New Tools to Produce Accessible E-Books IFLA-LPD - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ChattyInfty3: New Tools to Produce Accessible E-Books IFLA-LPD Satelite Conference eBooks for everyone August 23, 2014 Masakazu Suzuki , Kyushu University Katsuhito Yamaguchi, Nihon University InftyProject (http://www/inftyproject.org) Science Accessibility Net (http://www.sciaccess.net)

Plan of the talk  InftyProject  sAccessNet (Science Accessibility Net)  Paper, PDF → Editable, Accessible Documents  Multimedia DAISY Textbooks of Math/Science  Next steps problems 2 http://www.inftyproject.org/

ＩｎｆｔｙＰｒｏｊｅｃｔ  R&D of Scientific Information Systems (since the mid-1990s)  Main system development InftyReader : Math OCR software InftyEditor : Editor of math documents Data conversion （ XML, LaTeX, MathML, PDF, etc.) ChattyInfty : InftyEditor + speech output, Authoring of DAISY BrailleInfty: Editor of Braille math documents  URL ： Project site: http://www.inftyproject.org/en/ Release & user support of Infty products: NPO Science Accessibility Net: http://www.sciaccess.net/en/ 3 http://www.inftyproject.org/

InftyReader & InftyEditor Scan PDF InftyReader InftyEditor Image File (TIF, PNG, etc. ） Output in various format ・ LaTeX ・ HR-TeX ・ XHTML+MathML ・ MS Word ・ Braille Editable Document (XML ） ・ DAISY ・ EPUB3 4 http://www.inftyproject.org

ChattyInfty & BrailleInfty InftyEditor Braille Viewer/Editor fot Math Text Automatic Braille Transcription ChattyInfty Save as Braille Speech output of Text and Math Formula 5 http://www.inftyproject.org

ChattyInfty & BrailleInfty InftyEditor Braille Viewer/Editor fot Math Text Automatic Braille Transcription Demo ChattyInfty Save as Braille Speech output of Text and Math Formula 6 http://www.inftyproject.org

sAccessNet  Non profit organization “ Science Accessibility Net” - Helping people with visual handicaps working in scientific fields. - Digitization of mathematical Journals and books - Release and user support of Infty software - DSISY content production system (Collaboration with Japan Braille Library) - Jump-to-Science summer camp for visually impaired students - IT-literacy courses for visually impaired students  http://www.sciaccess.net/ 7 http://www.inftyproject.org/

sAccessNet  Non profit organization “ Science Accessibility Net” - Helping people with visual handicaps working in scientific fields. - Digitization of mathematical Journals and books - Release and user support of Infty software - DSISY content production system (Collaboration with Japan Braille Library) - Jump-to-Science summer camp for visually impaired students - IT-literacy courses for visually impaired students  http://www.sciaccess.net/ 8 http://www.inftyproject.org/

sAccessNet  Non profit organization “ Science Accessibility Net” - Helping people with visual handicaps working in scientific fields. - Digitization of mathematical Journals and books - Release and user support of Infty software - DSISY content production system (Collaboration with Japan Braille Library) - Jump-to-Science summer camp for visually impaired students - IT-literacy courses for visually impaired students  http://www.sciaccess.net/ 9 http://www.inftyproject.org/

sAccessNet  Non profit organization “ Science Accessibility Net” - Helping people with visual handicaps working in scientific fields. - Digitization of mathematical Journals and books - Release and user support of Infty software - DSISY content production system (Collaboration with Japan Braille Library) - Jump-to-Science summer camp for visually impaired students - IT-literacy courses for visually impaired students  http://www.sciaccess.net/ 10 http://www.inftyproject.org/

sAccessNet  Non profit organization “ Science Accessibility Net” - Helping people with visual handicaps working in scientific fields. - Digitization of mathematical Journals and books - Release and user support of Infty software - DSISY content production system (Collaboration with Japan Braille Library) - Jump-to-Science summer camp for visually impaired students - IT-literacy courses for visually impaired students  http://www.sciaccess.net/ 11 http://www.inftyproject.org/

Daisy Book Production System  Based on Infty-technology (InftyReader, ChattyInfty)  Use of High-Quality Speech Synthesizer AI-Talk  Collaboration with Japan Braille Library (Tokyo) (3 years project since 2011)  Easy User Interface to correct Reading, Intonation and Pauses. 12 http://www.inftyproject.org/

Daisy Book Production System  Based on Infty-technology (InftyReader, ChattyInfty)  Use of High-Quality Speech Synthesizer AI-Talk  Collaboration with Japan Braille Library (Tokyo) (3 years project since 2011)  Easy User Interface to correct Reading, Intonation and Pauses. 13 http://www.inftyproject.org/

Daisy Book Production System  Based on Infty-technology (InftyReader, ChattyInfty)  Use of High-Quality Speech Synthesizer AI-Talk  Collaboration with Japan Braille Library (Tokyo) (3 years project since 2011)  Easy User Interface to correct Reading, Intonation and Pauses. 14 http://www.inftyproject.org/

DAISY Book Production Flow InftyReader (Recognition ） Text Data including Math (XML) InftyEditor (Correction work) Verified Math Text Chatty Infty (Correction) Verified Math Text with Speech Output Export Text DAISY ／ Audio DAISY ／ EPUB3 etc. 15 http://www.inftyproject.org

DAISY Book Production Flow InftyReader (Recognition ） Text Data including Math (XML) InftyEditor (Correction work) Verified Math Text Chatty Infty (Correction) Verified Math Text with Speech Output Demo Export Text DAISY ／ Audio DAISY ／ EPUB3 etc. 16 http://www.inftyproject.org

Next Step Tasks  Accessibility of tables  Complicated Tables 17 http://www.inftyproject.org

Next Step Tasks  Accessibility of tables  Complicated Tables  Accessibility of Figures Texts and Math expressions in Figures  (Reading and Highlight)  Synchronization of the highlight of charcters and figure components with the corresponding explanation in the Texts 18 http://www.inftyproject.org

Next Step Tasks  Accessibility of tables  Complicated Tables  Accessibility of Figures Texts and Math expressions in Figures  (Reading and Highlight)  Synchronization of the highlight of charcters and figure components with the corresponding explanation in the Texts  Inclusion of Verified Braille codes into DAISY  Authoring by ChattyInfty  Player 19 http://www.inftyproject.org

Next Step Tasks  New DAISY(EPUB3) player  Detail Reading of Kanji, math expressions, etc.  Read again, Partial slow reading  Interactive Reading of Tables Multi-platform (Windows, Android, iOS ）   Synchronization of voice output and Braille Display cursor  Localization of Infty System to Different Languages  OCR  Speech engine 20 http://www.inftyproject.org

おわり Thanks you! InftyProject: http ： //www.inftyproject.org/ sAccessNet: http://www.sciaccess.net/ Masakazu Suzuki: msuzuki@kyudai.jp Katsuhito Yamaguchi: eugene@gaea.jcn.nihon-u.ac.jp 21 http://www.inftyproject.org