The STAUT-Reader, making general-purpose texts accessible to deaf.

  • Oliveira A
  • Oliveira F
  • Barros E
  • et al.
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Deaf individuals have difficulty in reading texts written in languages whose mode is oral-auditory, such as Portuguese. As users of a signed language, it is harder for them to gain knowledge from general-purpose information, contained in books, magazines and newspapers. Technology can be used to help readers with disabilities. For this purpose, we have built the STAUT-Reader, an electronic reader, designed to help deaf to have access to texts originally written in Portuguese. The tool uses a Rule-Based Machine Translation system to produce output texts in gloss notation, a written representation of Libras, the Brazilian Sign Language. To investigate our proposal we conduct an experiment using a counterbalanced within-subjects design to evaluate the effects of our tool on the reading performance of deaf readers. The results showed to be promising, especially for non-oralized deaf.

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Oliveira, A. D., Oliveira, F., Barros, E., Freitas, A., Araujo, T., & Silva, L. C. (2015). The STAUT-Reader, making general-purpose texts accessible to deaf. In Anais do XXVI Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (SBIE 2015) (Vol. 1, p. 762). Sociedade Brasileira de Computação - SBC. https://doi.org/10.5753/cbie.sbie.2015.762

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