Abstract: Disclosed is a method of phonetically encoding a text document. The method comprises providing, for a current word in the text document, a phonetically equivalent encoded word comprising one or more syllables, each syllable comprising a sequence of phonemes from a predetermined phoneme set, the sequence being phonetically equivalent to the corresponding syllable in the current word, and adding the phonetically equivalent encoded word or the current word at a current position in the phonetically encoded document. Each phoneme in the phoneme set is associated with a base grapheme that is pronounced as the phoneme in one or more English words.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 2, 2011
Date of Patent:
December 31, 2019
Assignee:
Accessible Publishing Systems Pty Ltd
Inventors:
Christopher Colin Stephen, Ann Elizabeth Fitts
Abstract: A system (5) for producing a document is disclosed. A repository (16) stores documents in a marked-up form according to one or more mark-up schemas. The schemas are adapted to make explicit structural information contained a document. A document format store (22) stores formats that are user selectable. A document production processor (29, 31, 32) generates a user-requested formatted document from the respective marked-up form using a user-selected said format that retains said implicit structural information.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 22, 2004
Date of Patent:
May 6, 2014
Assignee:
Accessible Publishing Systems Pty Ltd
Inventors:
Gregory Lyle Duncan, Christopher Colin Stephen
Abstract: Disclosed is a method of phonetically encoding a text document. The method comprises providing, for a current word in the text document, a phonetically equivalent encoded word comprising one or more syllables, each syllable comprising a sequence of phonemes from a predetermined phoneme set, the sequence being phonetically equivalent to the corresponding syllable in the current word, and adding the phonetically equivalent encoded word or the current word at a current position in the phonetically encoded document. Each phoneme in the phoneme set is associated with a base grapheme that is pronounced as the phoneme in one or more English words.
Type:
Application
Filed:
December 2, 2011
Publication date:
September 26, 2013
Applicant:
Accessible Publishing Systems Pty Ltd
Inventors:
Christopher Colin Stephen, Ann Elizabeth Fitts