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Rendering document content

  Document structure is implicitly conveyed in audio renderings by using audio layout made up of extra-textual speech and non-speech audio cues. The following subsections describe this audio layout and outline the rules for producing such renderings from the internal representation described in s:high-level-models.

Audio cues are either fleeting or persistent. This classification is orthogonal to the earlier classification into speech and non-speech audio cues. We define terms fleeting and persistent below:

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 [definition1316]

The following paragraphs clarify the above definitions by giving some examples of fleeting and persistent cues.





TV Raman
Thu Mar 9 20:10:41 EST 1995