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Presentation 2008-07-28 10:30
A Study on Japanese Phonetic Alphabet of Screen Readers -- Word Selection for Elementary School Students --
Tetsuya Watanabe (NISE), Tomomi Sasaki (Sendai Mun. Iwakiri Elem. School), Shigeyoshi Aoki, Nobuyuki Nagai (Miyagi Univ. Edu.) WIT2008-25
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) Japanese screen readers for blind persons are equipped with Japanese phonetic alphabet, which is a set of words that begin with each of Japanese alphabet letters and used to make it easier to distinguish a spoken alphabet letter from others. However, some words in the current sets seem unfamiliar to elementary school students. Thus, we conducted a word familiarity survey on words which are included in the current phonetic alphabet and candidate words which were newly selected from the Educational Basic Vocabulary. The result shows that a bit over 70% of the words used in the current phonetic alphabet were evaluated highly familiar and the rest unfamiliar to school children. Nearly 90% of the candidate words were evaluated highly familiar. Based on these results, it is suggested that some current phonetic alphabet words which were evaluated less familiar to school children should be replaced with the candidate words that begin with the same alphabet and evaluated highly familiar.
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(in English) Blind Persons / Screen Readers / Japanese Phonetic Alphabet / Word Familiarity / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 108, no. 170, WIT2008-25, pp. 31-37, July 2008.
Paper # WIT2008-25 
Date of Issue 2008-07-20 (WIT) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Information
Committee WIT  
Conference Date 2008-07-27 - 2008-07-28 
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Place (in English) Toki Messe(Niigata Convention Center) 
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
Topics (in English) Welfare Information Technology, etc 
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Conference Code 2008-07-WIT 
Language Japanese 
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
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Title (in English) A Study on Japanese Phonetic Alphabet of Screen Readers 
Sub Title (in English) Word Selection for Elementary School Students 
Keyword(1) Blind Persons  
Keyword(2) Screen Readers  
Keyword(3) Japanese Phonetic Alphabet  
Keyword(4) Word Familiarity  
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1st Author's Name Tetsuya Watanabe  
1st Author's Affiliation National Institute of Special Needs Education (NISE)
2nd Author's Name Tomomi Sasaki  
2nd Author's Affiliation Sendai Municipal Iwakiri Elementary School (Sendai Mun. Iwakiri Elem. School)
3rd Author's Name Shigeyoshi Aoki  
3rd Author's Affiliation Miyagi University of Education (Miyagi Univ. Edu.)
4th Author's Name Nobuyuki Nagai  
4th Author's Affiliation Miyagi University of Education (Miyagi Univ. Edu.)
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Date Time 2008-07-28 10:30:00 
Presentation Time 30 minutes 
Registration for WIT 
Paper # WIT2008-25 
Volume (vol) vol.108 
Number (no) no.170 
Page pp.31-37 
#Pages 7 
Date of Issue 2008-07-20 (WIT) 

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