FIG. 14C is a block diagram illustrating the components of a consonant-vowel pair (Abugida) haptic signal converter 1416 for converting consonant-vowel pairs of input words 1418 to actuator signals 1426 to activate cutaneous actuators 1428 of a haptic device, according to an embodiment. These components may be stored as computer readable instructions in memory, such as the memory 813. In another embodiment, these components are separately implemented using dedicated hardware, including a processor and memory. While FIG. 14A described a system for converting syllables to actuator signals, FIG. 14C describes a system for converting consonant-vowel pairs to actuator signals. The consonant-vowel pair (Abugida) haptic signal converter 1416 may include, among other components, a consonant-vowel pair splitter 1420, a consonant-vowel haptic converter 1422 and a consonant vowel haptic signal database 1424.
The input words 1418 are words in a language that can be formed from a limited number of consonant-vowel pairs. An example of such a language is Hindi, which uses the Devanagari script, and which represents the spoken language in consonant-vowel pairs. These types of languages are called abugida. Note that languages such as English, while representable in consonant-vowel pairs, would have a very high number of such pairs, and thus such a representation may not be feasible for conversion into sequences of actuator signals.
