Multimedia technology for presentations patented

TECNOLÓGICO DE MONTERREY/DICYT Thanks to software designed by Tecnológico de Monterrey researchers, speech or hearing-impaired individuals will be able to make effective presentations with a system that fuses three technologies: artificial voice generation, language translation, and software for presentations.

"In Mexico, 19% of the population has some kind to hearing or speech impediment. Our tool can be of great use to mute professors, as it doesn't only employ artificial voice generation, but it incorporates a presentations system with which they can effectively teach a class," said system inventor Juan Arturo Nolazco, PhD.

He explained that the technology allows a user to create a presentation and at the same time configure it to reproduce with voice or slides what he/she is writing about a topic.

"Another of the technology's applications is that it helps you when you want to prepare a presentation in a language you don't speak. For example, if you're going to make a presentation in Russian, what you do is you write in your language and the software translates and voices what you want to say", he mentioned.

The technology, named "Method to synthesize voice signals from multimedia objects", developed by Dr. Juan Arturo Nolazco together with Victor Manuel Méndez, a master in science, recently was awarded a patent by the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI).