A Girl's OCR TechBlog

Turning images into editable text
OCR (Optical Charactor Recognition) is the process of turning a picture of words (such as a scan of a typed letter) into an editable document that you can open and use in your desktop publishing software, word processor, or other text editor.
While the technology has been around for years, it has also been a hit-or-miss process. Some software ...

Cepstral Breaks the 2 MB Voice Barrier
The software can produce fully general, unit selection Text-to-Speech voices under two megabytes in size. Consumer electronics manufacturers can now add high quality Text-to-Speech features in talking e-mail, talking e-books, spoken reminders, or talking directions,"
Cepstral TTS Voices Released for Mac OS X
Apple has speech se...

OCR with no shape training
Tin Kam Ho; Nagy, G.
Pattern Recognition, 2000. Proceedings. 15th International Conference on
Volume 4, Issue , 2000 Page(s):27 - 30 vol.4
Digital Object Identifier   10.1109/ICPR.2000.902858
Summary:We present a document-specific OCR system and apply it to a corpus of fixed business letters. Unsup...