Rustam Asnawi and Wan Fatimah Wan Ahmad
Development of Multimodal eSlide Presentation to Support SelfLearning for the Visually Impaired
1742 - 1746
2011
5
12
International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering
https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1925
https://publications.waset.org/vol/60
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
Currently electronic slide (eslide) is one of the most common styles in educational presentation. Unfortunately, the utilization of eslide for the visually impaired is uncommon since they are unable to see the content of such eslides which are usually composed of text, images and animation. This paper proposes a model for presenting eslide in multimodal presentation i.e. using conventional slide concurrent with voicing, in both languages Malay and English. At the design level, live multimedia presentation concept is used, while at the implementation level several components are used. The text content of each slide is extracted using COM component, Microsoft Speech API for voicing the text in English language and the text in Malay language is voiced using dictionary approach. To support the accessibility, an auditory user interface is provided as an additional feature. A prototype of such model named as VSlide has been developed and introduced.
Open Science Index 60, 2011