Auditory BCIs for Visually Impaired Users: Should Developers Worry About the Quality of Text-to-Speech Readers?
Published in 5th International BCI Meeting, 2013
Laghari, K., Gupta, R., Arndt, S., Antons, J.-N., Möller, S. & Falk, T. H.
We discuss the role of TTS quality in auditory brain–computer interface (BCI) design for visually impaired users. Through a small-scale evaluation, differences in TTS intelligibility and naturalness are shown to impact workload, accuracy, and user preference in auditory BCI tasks. We derive recommendations for selecting and tuning TTS to improve accessibility and performance.
Recommended citation: Laghari, K., Gupta, R., Arndt, S., Antons, J.-N., Möller, S. & Falk, T. H. (2013, June). Auditory BCIs for Visually Impaired Users: Should Developers Worry About the Quality of Text-to-Speech Readers?. Paper presented at the 5th International BCI Meeting, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.