Personal Audio Information Service

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Project details

Start date: 01/10/2007
End date: 01/10/2010

Description: This project defines and demonstrates a Personal Audio Information Service (PAIS) - a new mainstream system that expands the lifeline services currently offered to people with visual impairments through audio information services (AIS) by automatically assembling a selection of locally relevant, customized audio content from current AIS broadcasts. The PAIS system combines the established framework of audio information services with the new programming flexibility that is afforded by HD Radio (the new FCC standard for digital radio broadcasting), creating a powerful on-demand radio system that will substantially improve media access for millions of American consumers with print disabilities. The project: (1) develops efficient audio interfaces for selecting, navigating, and listening to content; (2) develops effective systems for tagging, subdividing, and collecting topic-based content; (3) develops and demonstrates a full scale PAIS system in a real world broadcast pilot; and (4) documents and publishes recommended best operating practices for audio information service providers and consumer electronics manufacturers to fully deploy PAIS technologies.

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Last updated: 02/04/2008