The consonant-vowel (C-V) pair haptic signal converter 1416 is similar to the syllable-haptic signal converter 1402, but converts the input words 1418 into component C-V pairs, and converts these C-V pairs into sequences of actuator signals, instead of converting into syllables. The C-V pair haptic signal converter 1416 includes a consonant-vowel pair splitter 1420, a consonant-vowel haptic signal converter 1422 and a consonant-vowel haptic signal database 1424. In one embodiment, the C-V pair haptic signal converter 1416 may be a component in a signal generator, such as signal generator 800.
The C-V pair splitter 1420 converts the input words 1418 into component C-V pairs. The output of the syllabic splitter 1406 may be a set of symbols representing the C-V pairs of the language of the input words 1418.
The C-V haptic signal converter 1422 may be similar to the syllable-haptic signal converter 1408, but converts the C-V pairs of the input words 1404 into sequences of actuator signals, instead of the syllables of the input words. For each C-V pair received from the C-V pair splitter 1420, the C-V haptic signal converter 1422 accesses the C-V haptic signal database 1424 to determine the corresponding sequence of actuator signals 1426 to output.