Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, Read2Me! Stefan Estrada Rémi Jean Mickaël Meyer

Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, What is Read2Me! ? ● Text-to-speech tool, with which a computer reads text aloud ● Stand alone interface ● Converter to save the speech to an MP3 file ● Possible Firefox plug-in

Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, Who is Read2Me! designed for ? ● Client: – Dorian Miller – LDS volunteer/CS Grad student ● Users: – People with reading disabilities – Anyone

Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, Existing Tools ● Several tools over the web – Read Please, Natural reader, Talk-it ● Not Open Source ● FreeTTS and MS SAPI engines

Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, Design JAVA GUI SWT MS SAPIFreeTTS Text MP3 file Sound MP3 Lame converter

Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, GUI

Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, Demo ● Demo time ! (hope it doesn’t crash…)

Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, To Do ● MS SAPI Integration ● Navigation ● MP3 LAME Converter ● Installer ● Additional features – Firefox plug-in – Collect user data

Read2Me! – Stefan Estrada, Rémi Jean, Mickaël Meyer – March, That’s it ! ● Thank you for your attention ● Any question ?