Alexander J Fiannaca

Voicesetting: Voice Authoring UIs for Improved Expressivity in Augmentative Communication

Alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) systems used by people with speech disabilities rely on text-to-speech (TTS) engines for synthesizing speech. Advances in TTS systems allowing for the rendering of speech with a range of emotions have yet to be incorporated into AAC systems, leaving AAC users with speec…