Work place: Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah
E-mail: ihkhan@kau.edu.sa
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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Evolutionary Computation, Natural Language Processing, Programming Language Theory
Biography
Dr. Imtiaz H. Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA. He received his master’s degree in computer science from the University of Essex, UK, in 2005. He earned his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, UK, in 2010. His research interests are natural language processing, particularly natural language generation and evolutionary computation.
By Najwa K. Bakhsh Saleh Alshomrani Imtiaz Khan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijieeb.2014.04.04, Pub. Date: 8 Aug. 2014
Text-to-speech synthesis is the process of converting written text to speech. The lack of research on the growth of and the need for the Arabic language is notable. Therefore, this paper reports an empirical study that systematically compares two screen readers, namely, NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) and IBSAR. We measured the quality of these two systems in terms of standard pronunciation and intelligibility tests with visually impaired or blind people. The results revealed that NVDA outperformed IBSAR on the pronunciation tests. However, both systems gave competitive performance on the intelligibility tests.
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