From: Samuel Thibault (samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 16:10:43 CST
John H. Jenkins, le Mon 02 Feb 2009 11:12:21 -0700, a écrit :
> In any event, I'm a bit confused by the requirement. Chinese *speech*
> suffers from the same ambiguities.
Yes, but you are forgetting something: the context is some _written_
text, i.e. something which people usually read, not listen to, and so
the writer will have taken less care about *speech* ambiguities since
it's written text, not oral text. But blind people don't have the
written text, they just have the pronunciation (through braille).
> Heck, even *English* has the same ambiguities.
Yes, and when I read some english-speaking blind mailing list, I
can quite easily guess who use a speech synthesizer and who use
a braille device. With speech synthesis only there are far more
misunderstandings. It happens that Chinese braille suffers from this
issue too.
> The best way for someone fluent in Chinese to understand what a
> character means is to leave it in its context.
As said above, the problem is that sighted users have _more_ context:
they know precisely which kanjis are used. Blind users only have the
pronunciation.
BTW, "screen reader" is also used for applications that render braille,
not only for speech synthesis.
Samuel
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