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Multi-Platform Implementation of Speech Apis MULTI-PLATFORM IMPLEMENTATION OF SPEECH APIS A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Karen Manukyan, B.S., M.S. ***** The Ohio State University 2008 Master’s Examination Committee: Approved by Dr. Eitan Gurari, Adviser Dr. Rajiv Ramnath Adviser Graduate Program in Computer Science and Engineering °c Copyright by Karen Manukyan 2008 ABSTRACT We live in an era of rapidly developing information technologies. Computers and the internet make finding information easier than ever before. Unfortunately not everyone can fully benefit from this: a vast amount of information is available in only textual form, making it difficult or even impossible for visually impaired and dyslexic persons to access it. Special tools for vocalizing textual information can be of great assistance to them, and a valuable tool for sighted people as well. The goal of this project is to design and implement speech APIs that are easy to extend and use with a variety of speech engines on different operating systems. JSAPI (Java Speech API) serves as a base for the project. Proposed by Sun Microsystems, JSAPI consists of a set of well defined interfaces for Java classes and the speech markup language JSML. No implementation of JSAPI is provided by Sun. The few available implementations of JSAPI, firstly, do not have the full set of features that may be needed for speech enabled applications and, secondly, are limited to a specific speech engine and operating system. This project takes significant steps towards solving these problems. ii Dedicated to my fianc´ee, parents and brother iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I want to express my gratitude to Dr. Eitan Gurari for his support in the course of the project. Not only is he an excellent adviser, but also a wonderful person. I want thank my fianc´ee Katie for helping me to proofread the thesis and, of course, for moral support. I also want to thank Dr. Rajiv Ramnath and my friends, James Dinan, Issam Safa, Oleksiy Busaryev, Oleg Mishchenko and Sheetal Ghadse, for coming to the thesis defense, the last step towards my graduation. iv VITA July 30, 1980 ...............................Born - Odessa, Ukraine September 1997 - June 2001 ................B.S. Computer Science, Odessa National Polytechnic Univer- sity, Odessa, Ukrane. September 2001 - June 2002 ................M.S. Computer Science, Odessa National Polytechnic Univer- sity, Odessa, Ukrane. June 2005 - June 2008 ......................Graduate Research Associate, The Ohio State University. FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: Computer Science and Engineering v TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Abstract....................................... ii Dedication...................................... iii Acknowledgments.................................. iv Vita......................................... v ListofFigures ................................... viii Chapters: 1. Introduction.................................. 1 1.1 Motivation ............................... 1 1.2 Thesisstatement ............................ 3 1.3 Results ................................. 3 1.4 Organizationofthethesis . 3 2. Background.................................. 5 2.1 SpeechMarkupLanguages. 5 2.1.1 SAPITTSMarkupLanguage . 5 2.1.2 JSML .............................. 7 2.1.3 SSML.............................. 8 2.1.4 STML.............................. 9 2.1.5 SABLE ............................. 11 2.1.6 AuralCSS ........................... 12 2.2 SpeechEngines............................. 14 2.2.1 Microsoft Speech Engine . 15 vi 2.2.2 Festival ............................. 17 2.2.3 Espeak ............................. 17 2.2.4 MacinTalk synthesizer . 19 2.3 SpeechAPIs .............................. 21 2.3.1 JSAPI.............................. 21 2.3.2 SpeechDispatcher ....................... 24 2.4 JSAPIImplementations . 28 2.4.1 TalkingJava .......................... 28 2.4.2 FreeTTS ............................ 28 2.4.3 Summary ............................ 28 3. Project Design and Implementation . 29 3.1 Speech API and Markup Language Selection . 29 3.2 SpeechEnginesSelection. 30 3.3 Challenges ............................... 31 3.3.1 Multi-Platform Implementation . 31 3.3.2 Inter-Language Communication . 32 3.3.3 Differences in Speech Engines’ APIs and Markup Languages 32 3.3.4 Differences in Speech Engines’ Events Systems . 33 3.4 ArchitectureOverview . 33 3.5 Implementation Overview . 34 3.6 Conclusion ............................... 40 4. FutureWork ................................. 41 4.1 MoreCompleteJSAPISupport . 41 4.2 Other Speech Engines and Platforms Support . 42 4.3 OtherSpeechMarkupLanguagesSupport . 42 4.4 Transforming source code to the literate programming style . 43 Appendices: A. CompilationandInstallation. 44 A.1 Windows ................................ 44 A.1.1 BuildingtheLibrary . 44 A.1.2 InstallingtheLibrary . 45 A.2 Linux .................................. 46 A.2.1 BuildingtheLibrary . 46 A.2.2 InstallingtheLibrary . 47 vii Bibliography .................................... 48 viii LIST OF FIGURES Figure Page 3.1 High-levelarchitecture. 34 3.2 Adapter elements and Java – C++ interface. 36 ix CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Speech synthesis is a valuable feature for many computer applications. For some of them, such as accessibility tools and applications for the visually impaired, it is required. While plain text synthesis may be sufficient for some applications, others may require more sophisticated speech synthesis mechanisms, such as setting various vocal properties of the synthesized speech and allowing the user to interact with and control the synthesis and browsing processes. 1.1 Motivation A The tex4ht tool is available for translating LTEX files into different hypertext formats. The hypertext code captures the logical structures of the documents, and can be provided with information on how to render the data visually and auditorially. Various powerful browsers for visual representation of hypertext documents exist. Some of the browsers have support (natively or with the help of plug-ins [15]) for highly structural material, such as mathematical formulas, that cannot be effectively presented in a plain text format. Hovewer, not many advanced tools are offered for voice browsing. 1 Most of the available voice tools are intended for vocalizing plain text and HTML and are not sufficiently sophisticated to handle highly structural content [13, 14, 24]. Some of the more advanced screen readers, for instance JAWS [10], can use other tools to provide support for certain kinds of highly structured content. Among the the few speech tools that work with highly structural material are found MathPlayer [11] and Emacspeak [4]. MathPlayer can not be easily used to add MathML support to any application, as it was designed as Internet Explorer plug- in. JAWS, for instance, can use MathPlayer’s functionality only indirectly through Internet Explorer. Thus, MathML support in JAWS is limited to web-pages loaded in Internet Explorer with the MathPlayer plugin installed. Not only is MathPlayer limited to Internet Explorer and Windows OS, but its support of markup languages is also limited to MathML only. Analogously, Emacspeak can be used only within Emacs, which provides the con- trol and navigation mechanism, but requires external browsers to serve the markup and, feature-wise, is not flexible enough for tailoring to deal with highly structured code. Voice browsers can greatly assist visually impaired people, especially those who need access to information that is too complex to be presented in plain text format. The following are desirable properties in voice browsers: • Interactivity: users should be able to control and navigate the process of speech synthesis. • Understanding the structure of documents: the voice browsers should under- stand the underlying structure of the hypertext documents and should be able to provide efficient navigation capabilities to the users. 2 • Adjustable speech properties: Various voice properties, such as: volume, rate, pitch, etc. should be adjustable to provide for optimal user experience. 1.2 Thesis statement The importance of advanced voice browsers has been illustrated in the sections above. Powerful and easy to use speech API is an essential component for facilitating the development of sophisticated voice browsers. A speech API implementation that can easily be extended to work with different speech synthesizers on a variety of operating systems will simplify the creation of cross-platform highly configurable voice browsers. Unfortunately, no such speech API implementations exist. The main focus of this thesis is the design and development of a multi-platform Java Speech API implementation which can be used with different speech engines. The thesis also reviews existing speech synthesis software components and markup languages that can be used for the implementation of Java Speech API. 1.3 Results The result of this project is an open source library, implementation of the speech synthesis part of the Java Speech API, for Linux and Windows operating systems. This library can be used by any application that needs speech synthesis capabilities. The library can also be easily extended for use with speech engines other than those already supported. 1.4 Organization of the thesis The thesis is organized as follows: Chapter 2 overviews existing speech markup languages, speech synthesizers and speech APIs. Chapter 3 presents the main design 3 and implementation decisions made in the process of working
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