DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXT TO SPEECH

APPLICATION FOR VISION IMPAIRED STUDENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title page
Certification
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Table of content

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction

1.1 Introduction
1.2 Background of study
1.3 Statement of problem
1.4 Objective of study
1.5 Scope of study
1.6 Significant of study
1.7 Limitation of study
1.8 Definition of terms

CHAPTER TWO: Literature review

2.1 Introduction
2.2 Different type of data
2.2 Classes of data types
2.2.2

Composite Types

2.2.2

Other Types

2.3 Data conversion

2.4 Text-to-speech application
2.5 Different challenges in individual (disability)
2.6 Technology to overcome different challenges
2.7 Over goals of empowering persons with disabilities
through Technology
2.8 Empowerment of the target group
2.9 The benefits of ICT in e-learning and improving
capabilities of students with disabilities
2.10 Technology for persons with disabilities
2.10.1

E-learning and education of students with disabilities

2.10.2

Persons with disabilities moving from isolation to

integration
2.11 ICT providing computer accessibility for persons with

disabilities

CHAPTER THREE: System Analysis Design

3.1 Introduction
3.2 System analysis
3.2.1

Detailed definition of the problem

3.2.3

Feasibility study

3.3 Method of collecting data

3.3.1

Interview

3.3.2

Observation

3.3.3

Review of procedure manual or existing

system/procedure
3.3.4

Evaluation of forms

3.4 Problem of the existing system

3.5 User preparation
3.6 Data preparation
3.6 Objective of the new design
3.8 Design of the new system
3.9 Program structure
3.9.1

Modularity

3.9.2

Top-down program design

3.9.3

System flowchart

3.9.4

Program flow chart

3.10 File Maintenance module

3.11 main menu specifications
3.11.1

Output specification

3.11.2

Input specification

3.11.3

File/database specifications

CHAPTER FOUR: System Implementation and Design

4.1 Introduction
4.2 Justification of the programming language
4.3

System control

4.4 System requirements

4.4.1
4.4.2
4.4.3

Hardware requirements
Software requirements
People

4.5 Implementation details

4.5.1
4.5.2

Coding
System testing

4.5.3

Training and re-training of staff

4.5.4
4.5.5
4.5.6

File Conversion
Changeover procedure
User manuals

4.5.7

Maintenance details

CHAPTER Five: Summary, Conclusion and

Recommendation
5.1

Summary

5.2

Conclusion

5.3

Recommendation
Reference

CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
As our society further expands, there have been many supports
for second class citizens, disabled. One of many supports is the
guarantee of mobility for blind people. There have been many
efforts but even now, it is not easy for blind people to
independently move. As electronic technologies have improved,
a research about Electrical Aided: EA for blind people has
started. With a current product, Human Tech of Japan
developed Navigation for blind people, using GPS and cell
phone. This system is consisted of cell phone of the user (blind
people), a subminiature of GPS receiver, a magnetic direction
sensor, a control unit and speech synthesis equipment with PC
of base station.
Text-To-Speech has been available for decades (since 1939).
Unfortunately, quality of the output-especially in terms of
naturalness-has historically been sub-optimal. Terms such as
"robotic"

have been

used

to describe

synthetic

speech.

Recently, the overall quality of Text-To-Speech from some

vendors has dramatically improved. Quality is now evident not

only in the remarkable naturalness of inflection and intonation,
but also in the ability to process text such as numbers,
abbreviations and addresses in the appropriate context.
Text-to-speech (TTS) is a type of speech synthesis application
that is used to create a spoken sound version of the text in a
computer document, such as a help file or a Web page. TTS can
enable the reading of computer display information for the
visually challenged person, or may simply be used to augment
the reading of a text message. Current TTS applications include
voice-enabled e-mail and spoken prompts in voice response
systems.

1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Long before electronic signal processing was invented, there
were those who tried to build machines to create human
speech. Some early legends of the existence of "Brazen Heads"
involved Pope Silvester II (d. 1003 AD), Albertus Magnus
(11981280), and Roger Bacon (12141294). In 1779, the
Danish scientist Christian Kratzenstein, working at the Russian

Academy of Sciences, built models of the human vocal tract

that could produce the five long vowel sounds (in International
Phonetic Alphabet notation, they are [a], [e], [i], [o] and
[u]). This was followed by the bellows-operated "acousticmechanical speech machine" by Wolfgang von Kempelen of
Pressburg, Hungary, described in a 1791 paper. This machine
added models of the tongue and lips, enabling it to produce
consonants as well as vowels. According to Charles (1857),
Wheatstone produced a "speaking machine" based on von
Kempelen's design, and in 1857, M. Faber built the "Euphonia".
Wheatstone's design was resurrected in 1923 by Paget.
In

the

1930s,

Bell

Labs

developed

the

vocoder, which

automatically analyzed speech into its fundamental tone and

resonances. From his work on the vocoder, Homer Dudley
developed a keyboard-operated voice synthesizer called The
Voder (Voice Demonstrator), which he exhibited at the 1939
New York World's Fair. The Pattern playback was built by Dr.
Franklin S. Cooper and his colleagues at Haskins Laboratories
in the late 1940s and completed in 1950. There were several
different versions of this hardware device but only one

currently survives. The machine converts pictures of the

acoustic patterns of speech in the form of a spectrogram back
into sound. Using this device, Allen J (2007) were able to
discover acoustic cues for the perception of phonetic segments
(consonants and vowels).

1.3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The challenge that is picked up that lead to this piece of project
work is that the blind find it not easy to know exactly word
there are typing even though they know the key board very
well, still they just assume that there are correct. At the end of
the day they will find themselves making a lot of mistake in
their typing works. This problem led to the development of this
project Text to Speech Application.

1.4 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The main objective of this project is to create an application
that will convent text to speech in order for the visually
impaired student to know exactly what they are reading or
hearing and presenting in the computer system. The visually

impaired student will be well assured of what they are hearing

and know are to correct their mistake if any typographical error
is their work.

1.5 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

The scope of this research work converts text into spoken
word, by analyzing and processing the text using Natural
Language Processing (NLP) and then using Digital Signal
Processing (DSP) technology to convert this processed text into
synthesized speech representation of the text.

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The significance of this project work is serve as a helping tools
for the vision impaired students, therefore, this goes a long
way by creating a text to speech synthesis application. The
blind student will use the software to voice out what they have
type.

1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

The limitations encounter in this research work includes:

1. Limited time to carryout research on the subject. Not

enough time to gather information for this research work.
2. The epileptic nature of power supply in the country. After
we have gathered the little material information for this
work, they are shortage of power supply to organize our
work.
3. Another limitation if Finance: doing a research work
definitely needs money. Finance is one of the greatest
challenges we have during this project.

1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS

Electrical Aided: An electronic device that help particular
disable been to achieve a setting goal
GPS- Global Position System: Is a radio navigation system.
Phonetic: Relating to the sounds of spoken language
Receiver: Person or thing who receives something.
Robot: A machine built to carry out some complex task or
group of tasks especially one which can be programmed.

Text: A writing consisting of multiple glyphs, characters,

symbols or sentences.
Speech: the ability to speak or to use vocalization to
communicate.
System: A collection of organized things

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