Bsc Dissertation

This BSc dissertation project for University of Pisa implements a webpage speech synthesizer with voice command recognition, for visually impaired users. Created in collaboration with CNR/Italian W3C Office (Dr. Oreste Signore) and DotVocal, the academic supervisor was Dr. Roberto Bruni from the University of Pisa.

The project is composed of a Firefox plugin and a C++/Java local service. The service provides speech synthetis and voice recognition features, while the Firefox plugin is responsible for retrieving and parsing web pages and providing visual hints during the speech synthesis.