Introducing kapten
- The technology used
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kap
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User Guide
VOICE RECOGNITION AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Voice recognition
allows the user
to give commands orally
to the system
being used, rather than manually entering them in via a tactile interface
(keyboard, buttons etc.).
Use the voice recognition in
kap
ten
for:
• selecting a function you wish to activate and navigating in the
corresponding voice menus (See
«Navigating in a voice menu»
, page 13);
• entering a destination (See
«Navigating with the GPS function»
, page 38);
• stating the name of a contact you wish to call (See
«Telephoning with the
CALL function»
, page 58);
• choosing from between different music-selection criteria: album title, artist,
song etc. (See
«Listening to music with the MP3 function»
, page 48).
You can speak instructions directly into the microphone on
kap
ten
's headset
(See
«The headset»
, page 20).
Speech synthesis
is an IT sound synthesis technique
for creating artificial
oral articulation of any text
. To do so it uses both linguistic processing
techniques, for transforming orthographical text into a phonetic version which
can be pronounced unambiguously, and signal processing techniques for
transforming this phonetic version into a digitalised sound which can be
listened to through a speaker.
kap
ten
combines speech synthesis and voice recognition to form the
vocal
interface
between the device and the user.
MP3 PLAYER
MP3 (
MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3
) is an audio compression format for storing
sound with a compression ratio of 1 to 12, without any loss of sound quality
audible to the human ear.
kap
ten
utilizes an MP3 player for reading music files saved in MP3 format in
its storage space
