The Center for Biomedical Informatics
State University of Campinas, Brazil
Research Abstracts
A MICROCOMPUTER-BASED PUBLIC INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR
HOSPITALS, USING SPEECH SYNTHESIS
Renato M.E. Sabbatini
The DELPHOS I system is a speech-synthesis program which
provides audible information about the contents of a relational
database. It has been used to develop a public information system to
visitors of a hospital, about the latest medical bulletin of interned
patients. Its main characteristics are: 1) can be easily used by health
professionals to digitize and record high-quality, natural speech
utterances in any language; forming a dictionary o commonly used words
and phrases; 2) presents formatted audible reports to users, upon their
identification by a digital access plastic card; 3) uses inexpensive,
standard hardware (IBM PC compatibles, a A/D and D/A converter board,
and a conventional audio box); 4) can be used as a terminal to the
resident HIS or as a stand-alone system; or, remotely, through a
telephone-answering device.
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Last Updated: March 2, 1996
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