Below is an example of Speech Recognizer in Arabic. We have been testing online speech recognition systems offered by Google Chrome and they really are not very successful in the Arabic dialects offered. Google has also rolled out speech recognition in Arabic for Android phones Nuance has a choice of Arabic voices for mobile and has added speech recognition but none of our team have been able to test its success rates. The Windows 8 mobile OS has the potential to support more Arabic options and offers translation from OCR although the actual text is still not 100% correct – Spot the problem! It will not really be an acceptable voice where a Nuance or Acapela option is available. The aim is to ship NVDA with the ATbar desktop version and the Arabic eSpeak voice. More research and thanks to a recent development with Arabic eSpeak we now have a free voice, Testing has shown that the voice needs to be improved but with work on the phonetics in the future this is something that could be done. Testing times with Arabic Windows 8 and Arabic eSpeak. This entry was posted in Arabic ATBar, Arabic TTS, ATbar, Uncategorized and tagged arabic, text to speech, TTS, YouTube on Septemby E.A. Where failures were reported these were double checked and found to be due to the word not being a partial word or not being in the dictionaries – usually due to an English speaking person trying to cut and past Arabic words! Testing the spell checker, text to speech and word prediction. Otherwise all the plugins appear to have worked well in the last few months. We have found some issues with Arabic mis-aligned text at times and there are occasions when the CSS of the website needs to be isolated from the toolbar. Nawar has also been testing the Arabic version as part of our maintenance programme. YouTube video overview of ATbar in Arabic Nawar Halabi has very kindly provided an introductory video of the Arabic version of ATbar and we have uploaded it to YouTube.
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