English Oblique Listening System Rapid Listening System for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and Its

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• English Oblique Listening System Rapid
  Listening System for the Blind and Visually
  Impaired, and Its Evaluation
• Shinichi Torihara1, Miyoko Nakamura 2, Nami Ueda
  2, Takuya Wada3, and Shun Ishizaki4
• 1 Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio
  University, 5322 Endo Fujisawa, 252-0816 Japan
• torihara_at_sfc.keio.ac.jp
• 2 Keio Research Institute at SFC, 5322 Endo
  Fujisawa, 252-0816 Japan
• 3 Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio
  University, 5322 Endo Fujisawa, 252-0816 Japan
• 4 Faculty of Environmental Information Graduate
  School of Media and Governance, Keio University,
  5322 Endo Fujisawa, 252-0816 Japan

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Agenda

• What is Oblique Listening?
• 1. Sequentiality and Linearity of Sound
• 2. Image of "Oblique" Listening
• 3. Stress-to-Stress Isochronism
• 4. System configuration
• Evaluation
• 5. Maximum speed of listening words (WPM) of
  the 20 subjects
• 6. Maximum speed of listening Sentences
  (WPM) of the 20 subjects 7. Distribution of the
  measured maximum speeds and the base-line speed
• 8. Distribution of the synthesized speech
  speed by the three systems
• 9. Percentage of correct responses to
  Passage 1
• Conclusion
• 10. Future Research

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1. Sequentiality and Linearity of Sound
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2. Image of "Oblique" Listening
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3. Stress-to-Stress Isochronism
English Stress to Stress Isochroism
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4. System configuration
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5. Maximum speed of listening words (WPM) of the
20 subjects
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6. Maximum speed of listening Sentences (WPM) of
the 20 subjects
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7. Distribution of the measured maximum speeds
and the base-line speed

• Measured or calculated speeds

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8. Distribution of the synthesized speech speed
by the three systems

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9. Percentage of correct responses to Passage 1

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10. Future Research

• Automatic Specification
• of Important Portions
• Multi-language Adaptation