Designing a TTS(Text-to-Speech) E-book App
Recently, technology is developing so fast. Now, almost everyone uses high technology products, such as smart phones and Tablet PC. Nowadays, children’s learning tools are not just hard copy books. Children can use smart phones and Tablet PC which can dow
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Applied English Department, Overseas Chinese University, Taiwan [email protected] 2 Applied English Department, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taiwan [email protected]
Abstract .Recently, technology is developing so fast. Now, almost everyone uses high technology products, such as smart phones and Tablet PC. Nowadays, children’s learning tools are not just hard copy books. Children can use smart phones and Tablet PC which can download e-book applications. Children can learn diverse things and enjoy various entertainments. We follow this trend. We designed an application of TTS (text-to-speech) story e-book and it can be put on the platform that can be downloaded and used. In our story content, special festivals from different countries were integrated into the story. By reading this TTS e-book, children can raise their interests in understanding different special festivals and culture from different countries as well as learning English. After finishing our application of audio e-book, we did a survey toward a TTS e-book acknowledgement and the acceptability of our app. Thirty fifth and sixth grade students filled out the surveys. Results of this survey showed that most students thought this TTS e-book APP was a wonderful and good tool for learning. To conclude, we hope this application can motivate more children to read and expose children to interesting festivals in the world. More technical breakthrough in reading need to be put into consideration in order to obtain more optimal outcomes in language learning. Keywords: App, story e-book.
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Technology varies from the time to time. People have some revolutions about ebooks. E-books combine the sound and the animated images that paper books cannot achieve. They bring children many advantages. For example, e-books are able to motivate children to learn and also e-books can stimulate children’s brain, listening and visions. Besides, parents can use electronic products to learn English with children by the e-books in any time. App is short for "application." In the realm of technology, this usually refers to a computer program that runs on a website, a tablet pc (iPad App) or a smart phone (Android or iphone App). In fact, by 2010, there were 5.3 billion Apps globally, which was about 77% of the world’s population (International Telecommunication Union, 2010). TTS is software made with artificial intelligence (A.I.) technique of text-to-speech. Typing the words that you want to transfer to speech, it can speak in a James J. (Jong Hyuk) Park et al. (eds.), Future Information Technology, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 309, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-55038-6_118, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014
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Y.-F. Lin and Y.-L. Wu
natural way of pronunciation. TTS e-book Apps are the apps which connect to the voiced e-books, which are good tools in learning reading and listening of a language. In order to provide children a better tool and media to learn Chinese and English, we use a TTS (Text-to-Speech) technique to reco
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