Talking paper authoring tools

摘要

A range of unified software authoring tools for creating a talking paper application for integration in an end user platform are described herein. The authoring tools are easy to use and are interoperable to provide an easy and cost-effective method of creating a talking paper application. The authoring tools provide a framework for creating audio content and image content and interactively linking the audio content and the image content. The authoring tools also provide for verifying the interactively linked audio and image content, reviewing the audio content, the image content and the interactive linking on a display device. Finally, the authoring tools provide for saving the audio content, the video content and the interactive linking for publication to a manufacturer for integration in an end user platform or talking paper platform.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions: creating an audio component and an image component, the creating comprising:
converting a printed or computer document into audio and images using at least one of optical character recognition, text summarization or text-to-speech technology; andproviding a user interface for a user to customize the audio and the images to create the audio component and the image component;linking a portion of the audio component with a portion of the image component with a link;presenting the audio component, the image component and the link on an electronic viewing device for review by the user, the presenting enabling verification of at least one of:
whether the link between the audio component and the image component exists,whether the link between the audio component and the image component includes an end to avoid infinite looping, orwhether a link path of the link between the audio component and the image component is accessible; andsaving the audio component, the image component and the link in a format to allow for integration into an end user platform, the format being selected from a plurality of formats for presenting the image component in a digital medium or printed medium upon integration in the end user platform and the audio component to be activated upon accessing the portion of the image component in the digital medium or the printed medium, wherein the format is selected from the plurality of formats based at least in part on a determination of whether the image component is to be presented in the digital medium or printed medium.