Title: Method and system for audibly outputting multi-byte characters to a visually-impaired user
Application Number: 97182297 Application Date: 1997.11.21
Publication Number: 1268238 Publication Date: 2000.09.27
Approval Pub. Date: Granted Pub. Date:
International Classifi-cation: G06F17/28;G09B21/00
Applicant(s) Name: Microsoft Corporation Address:
Inventor(s) Name: Peter. K-H. Wong;Jeffrey M. Witt
Attorney & Agent: feng xun
Abstract:
    An audible-output system disambiguates the phonetic sounds of multi-byte characters so that a visually-impaired user can uniquely identify which characters are associated with the output. The audible-output system provides this disambiguation through the use of a secondary audio channel that simultaneously outputs one or more sounds that distinguishes a character being output on a primary audio channel. That is, the phonetics of a character are audibly output on the primary channel, and the distinguishing sound is simultaneously output on a secondary channel. The combination of the two sounds on the two channels unambiguously identifies the character being output to the listener.
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