Patent ID: 8826137
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G09B,G10L

Abstract:
1. A screen reader software product resident on a non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising: a screen reader module communicatively coupled with resident software on a personal computer, the screen reader module adapted to collect both textual and associated non-textual display information generated by the resident software, the non-textual display information is selected from the group consisting of font format, paragraph format, bulleting, numbering, borders, shading, column format, page breaks, section breaks, tab settings, table structure, image data, case settings, comment field locations, hyperlink settings, data entry forms, and graphic user interface configuration; a broadcast module communicatively coupled to the screen reader module, the broadcast module adapted to communicate the display information collected by the screen reader module to a speech synthesizer; and an end-user-definable schema module communicatively coupled to the broadcast module, the schema module adapted to send the non-textual display information with the associated textual display information to the output device speech synthesizer in substantially concurrent fashion, whereby the schema module modifies the broadcast of the textual display information to communicate the associated non-textual display information by altering characteristics of the speech synthesizer, the characteristics selected from the group consisting of pitch, speed, volume, emphasis, simulated gender, simulated accent, simulated age, and pronunciation.