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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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AI-Generated Speech(also: Synthetic Speech, AI Speech)
Speech audio produced by artificial intelligence systems — typically neural text-to-speech or voice cloning models — rather than recorded from a human speaker. Deaf and hard-of-hearing content creators increasingly use AI-generated speech to add spoken-language tracks to signed…
ElevenLabs
A commercial AI voice platform that generates realistic synthetic speech and voice clones from text. ElevenLabs is used in accessibility contexts for producing narrated video voiceovers, audiobook-style readings, and personalized text-to-speech voices, and it has been adopted in…
Talking Browser(also: Talking Web Browser, Speaking Browser)
A historical term for a specialised web browser that converts on-screen content into synthesised speech, enabling blind and low-vision users to browse the web through audio rather than through a separate screen reader layered over a visual browser. Talking browsers such as IBM…

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