GB2390284A - A method to access web page text information that is difficult to read - Google Patents

A method to access web page text information that is difficult to read Download PDF

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GB2390284A
GB2390284A GB0319807A GB0319807A GB2390284A GB 2390284 A GB2390284 A GB 2390284A GB 0319807 A GB0319807 A GB 0319807A GB 0319807 A GB0319807 A GB 0319807A GB 2390284 A GB2390284 A GB 2390284A
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09B—EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
    • G09B5/00—Electrically-operated educational appliances
    • G09B5/06—Electrically-operated educational appliances with both visual and audible presentation of the material to be studied
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10L—SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING
    • G10L13/00—Speech synthesis; Text to speech systems

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Abstract

Web pages and other text documents displayed on a computer are reformatted to allow a user who has difficulty reading to navigate between and among such documents and to have such documents, or portions of them, read aloud by the computer using a text-to-speech engine (205) in their original or translated form while preserving the original layout of the document. A "point-and-read" paradigm allows a user to cause the text to be read solely by moving a pointing device (601) over graphical icons (409) or text (603) without requiring the user to click on anything in the document. Hyperlink navigation and other program functions are accomplished in a similar manner.

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GB 2390284 A continuation (74) Agent and/or Address for Service: David
Keltle Associates Fleet Place House, 2 Fleet Place, LONDON, EC4M YET, United Kingdom
GB0319807A 2001-02-26 2002-02-26 Web page display method that enables user access to text information that the user has difficulty reading Expired - Fee Related GB2390284B (en)

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GB0509518A GB2412049B (en) 2001-02-26 2002-02-26 Web page display method that enables user access to text information that the user has difficulty reading

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PCT/US2002/006041 WO2002069322A1 (en) 2001-02-26 2002-02-26 A method to access web page text information that is difficult to read.

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US5287102A (en) * 1991-12-20 1994-02-15 International Business Machines Corporation Method and system for enabling a blind computer user to locate icons in a graphical user interface
US5528739A (en) * 1993-09-17 1996-06-18 Digital Equipment Corporation Documents having executable attributes for active mail and digitized speech to text conversion
US5715370A (en) * 1992-11-18 1998-02-03 Canon Information Systems, Inc. Method and apparatus for extracting text from a structured data file and converting the extracted text to speech
US5748186A (en) * 1995-10-02 1998-05-05 Digital Equipment Corporation Multimodal information presentation system
US5899975A (en) * 1997-04-03 1999-05-04 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Style sheets for speech-based presentation of web pages
US6018710A (en) * 1996-12-13 2000-01-25 Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. Web-based interactive radio environment: WIRE
US6085161A (en) * 1998-10-21 2000-07-04 Sonicon, Inc. System and method for auditorially representing pages of HTML data
US6115686A (en) * 1998-04-02 2000-09-05 Industrial Technology Research Institute Hyper text mark up language document to speech converter

Patent Citations (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US5287102A (en) * 1991-12-20 1994-02-15 International Business Machines Corporation Method and system for enabling a blind computer user to locate icons in a graphical user interface
US5715370A (en) * 1992-11-18 1998-02-03 Canon Information Systems, Inc. Method and apparatus for extracting text from a structured data file and converting the extracted text to speech
US5528739A (en) * 1993-09-17 1996-06-18 Digital Equipment Corporation Documents having executable attributes for active mail and digitized speech to text conversion
US5748186A (en) * 1995-10-02 1998-05-05 Digital Equipment Corporation Multimodal information presentation system
US6018710A (en) * 1996-12-13 2000-01-25 Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. Web-based interactive radio environment: WIRE
US5899975A (en) * 1997-04-03 1999-05-04 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Style sheets for speech-based presentation of web pages
US6115686A (en) * 1998-04-02 2000-09-05 Industrial Technology Research Institute Hyper text mark up language document to speech converter
US6085161A (en) * 1998-10-21 2000-07-04 Sonicon, Inc. System and method for auditorially representing pages of HTML data

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