Wikipedia will soon have a crowdsourced speech engine to read articles aloud
Mar11
on March 11, 2016
at 12:57 pm
Millions of people around the world rely on Wikipedia for information on just about every topic under the sun, offered in nearly 300 languages and at no charge. But it’s less accessible to those with vision impairments and learning disabilities. To address this, the online encyclopedia is teaming up with Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology to develop an open-source speech synthesis engine that will read out articles with more natural pronunciation than traditional text-to-speech tools. The idea is to create a way to make content on Wikipedia and any other site built using the MediaWiki platform easier to consume,…
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