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Hearsay: enabling audio browsing on hypertext content

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Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web table of contents

New York, NY, USA

SESSION: Usability and accessibility table of contents

Pages: 80 - 89

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-844-X

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I. V. Ramakrishnan	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Amanda Stent	Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Guizhen Yang	University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ABSTRACT

In this paper we present HearSay, a system for browsing hypertext Web documents via audio. The HearSay system is based on our novel approach to automatically creating audio browsable content from hypertext Web documents. It combines two key technologies: (1) automatic partitioning of Web documents through tightly coupled structural and semantic analysis, which transforms raw HTML documents into semantic structures so as to facilitate audio browsing; and (2) VoiceXML, an already standardized technology which we adopt to represent voice dialogs automatically created from the XML output of partitioning. This paper describes the software components of HearSay and presents an initial system evaluation.

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