Download or read book Design of Speech based Devices written by Ian Pitt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations of humans in virtual environments are called Avatars. This book brings together work from a variety of relevant disciplines to detail how humans interact in computer-generated environments. It contains contributions from several key people in the field, including Microsoft Researchs Virtual World Group, and presents their findings in a way that is accessible to readers who are new to the field. Coverage details Internet-based virtual worlds that have been widely used by the public as well as networked VR systems that have been primarily used in pilot studies and research.
Download or read book Designing Voice User Interfaces written by Cathy Pearl and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are becoming all the rage today. But how do you build one that people can actually converse with? Whether you’re designing a mobile app, a toy, or a device such as a home assistant, this practical book guides you through basic VUI design principles, helps you choose the right speech recognition engine, and shows you how to measure your VUI’s performance and improve upon it. Author Cathy Pearl also takes product managers, UX designers, and VUI designers into advanced design topics that will help make your VUI not just functional, but great.Understand key VUI design concepts, including command-and-control and conversational systemsDecide if you should use an avatar or other visual representation with your VUIExplore speech recognition technology and its impact on your designTake your VUI above and beyond the basic exchange of informationLearn practical ways to test your VUI application with usersMonitor your app and learn how to quickly improve performanceGet real-world examples of VUIs for home assistants, smartwatches, and car systems
Download or read book Handbook of Human Computer Interaction written by M.G. Helander and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is concerned with principles of human factors engineering for design of the human-computer interface. It has both academic and practical purposes; it summarizes the research and provides recommendations for how the information can be used by designers of computer systems. The articles are written primarily for the professional from another discipline who is seeking an understanding of human-computer interaction, and secondarily as a reference book for the professional in the area, and should particularly serve the following: computer scientists, human factors engineers, designers and design engineers, cognitive scientists and experimental psychologists, systems engineers, managers and executives working with systems development. The work consists of 52 chapters by 73 authors and is organized into seven sections. In the first section, the cognitive and information-processing aspects of HCI are summarized. The following group of papers deals with design principles for software and hardware. The third section is devoted to differences in performance between different users, and computer-aided training and principles for design of effective manuals. The next part presents important applications: text editors and systems for information retrieval, as well as issues in computer-aided engineering, drawing and design, and robotics. The fifth section introduces methods for designing the user interface. The following section examines those issues in the AI field that are currently of greatest interest to designers and human factors specialists, including such problems as natural language interface and methods for knowledge acquisition. The last section includes social aspects in computer usage, the impact on work organizations and work at home.
Download or read book Usability of Speech Dialog Systems written by Thomas Hempel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before designing a speech application system, three key questions have to be answered: who will use it, why and how often? This book focuses on these high-level questions and gives a criteria of when and how to design speech systems. After an introduction, the state-of-the-art in modern voice user interfaces is displayed. The book goes on to evolve criteria for designing and evaluating successful voice user interfaces. Trends in this fast growing area are also presented.
Download or read book Emotional Design written by Don Norman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why attractive things work better and other crucial insights into human-centered design Emotions are inseparable from how we humans think, choose, and act. In Emotional Design, cognitive scientist Don Norman shows how the principles of human psychology apply to the invention and design of new technologies and products. In The Design of Everyday Things, Norman made the definitive case for human-centered design, showing that good design demanded that the user's must take precedence over a designer's aesthetic if anything, from light switches to airplanes, was going to work as the user needed. In this book, he takes his thinking several steps farther, showing that successful design must incorporate not just what users need, but must address our minds by attending to our visceral reactions, to our behavioral choices, and to the stories we want the things in our lives to tell others about ourselves. Good human-centered design isn't just about making effective tools that are straightforward to use; it's about making affective tools that mesh well with our emotions and help us express our identities and support our social lives. From roller coasters to robots, sports cars to smart phones, attractive things work better. Whether designer or consumer, user or inventor, this book is the definitive guide to making Norman's insights work for you.
Download or read book Intelligent Speech Signal Processing written by Nilanjan Dey and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent Speech Signal Processing investigates the utilization of speech analytics across several systems and real-world activities, including sharing data analytics related information, creating collaboration networks between several participants, and implementing video-conferencing in different application areas. It provides a forum for readers to discover the characteristics of intelligent speech signal processing systems across different domains. Chapters focus on the latest applications of speech data analysis and management tools across different recording systems. The book emphasizes the multi-disciplinary nature of the field, presenting different applications and challenges with extensive studies on the design, implementation, development, and management of intelligent systems, neural networks, and related machine learning techniques for speech signal processing. Highlights different data analytics techniques in speech signal processing, including machine learning, and data mining Illustrates different applications and challenges across the design, implementation, and management of intelligent systems and neural networks techniques for speech signal processing Includes coverage of biomodal speech recognition, voice activity detection, spoken language and speech disorder identification, automatic speech to speech summarization, and convolutional neural networks
Download or read book Practical Speech User Interface Design written by James R. Lewis and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although speech is the most natural form of communication between humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines anything but natural. Drawing from psychology, human-computer interaction, linguistics, and communication theory, Practical Speech User Interface Design provides a comprehensive yet concise survey of practical speech
Download or read book Designing with Speech Processing Chips written by Ricardo Jimenez and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing with Speech Processing Chips focuses on the role that speech processing chips play in data processing, control systems, and inventory display. The book highlights the use of these chips in electronic circuit design. Divided into seven chapters, the book identifies different kinds of chips, including Serial Speech ROM SPR128A; SPR000 Parallel-to-Serial Speech Interface Chip; and Samsung Voice Synthesizers. Experiments on several speech processors are conducted. Electronic diagrams are also presented to show how these chips function. The text puts emphasis on analog and digital circuits. Concerns include the use of a window comparator or a 10-step voltage comparator to drive a speech processor; how to design alternating current motor-speed controller with artificial voice; and how to create a talking coffee machine controller. The book goes further by discussing the design of burglar alarms and voice recognition chips. The text is a vital source of data for system engineers, engineering students, technicians, and readers interested in the study of speech processing chips.
Download or read book Human Factors and Voice Interactive Systems written by Daryle Gardner-Bonneau and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human Factors and Voice Interactive Systems highlights the importance of human factors in speech technologies and presents and demonstrates the use of human factors, principles, methods, techniques, and tools in the design of speech-enabled applications. Included is coverage of automatic speech recognition, synthetic speech, and interactive voice response systems. Some chapters are devoted to specific applications of speech technology, and other chapters are either issue-oriented or provide a comprehensive view of human factors knowledge and `lessons learned' in a specific applications area. This book places special emphasis on interactive voice response (IVR), devoting seven of its fourteen chapters to both speech-enabled and `traditional' touch-tone-based IVR applications. Other chapters emphasize speech recognition application development, natural language processing, synthetic speech, and the use of speech technology in assistive devices for people with disabilities to further the goal of universal access to information technology for all.
Download or read book Front end of Wake up word Speech Recognition System Design on Field Programmable Gate Arrays written by Mohamed Muftah Eljhani and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A typical speech recognition system is push button operated (Push-to-talk), which requires hand movement and hence mixed multi-modal interface. However, for disabled patients and those who use hands-busy applications (e.g., where the user has objects to manipulate or device to control while asking for assistance from another device) movement may be restricted or impossible. The only alternative is to use Speech Only Interface. The method that is being proposed is called Wake-Up-Word Speech Recognition (WUW-SR). A WUW-SR system would allow the user to operate (activate) many systems (Cell phone, Computer, Elevator, etc.) with speech commands instead of hand movements. This work defines a new front-end paradigm of the Wake-Up-Word Speech Recognition on Field Programmable gate Arrays (FPGA). The-State-of-The-Art Front-end of WUW-SR system is based on three different subsystems that can produce three sets of features simultaneously: Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC), Linear Predictive Coding Coefficients (LPC), and Enhanced Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficients (ENH_MFCC). These extracted features are then compressed and transmitted to the server via a dedicated channel, where subsequently they are decoded. These features are decoded with corresponding Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) in the back-end stage of the WUW-SR. In the WUW-SR system, the front-end processor is located at the terminal (e.g. hand-held device) which is typically connected over a data network to remote back-end recognition (e.g., server). WUW's front-end can be added to any hand-held electronic device compatible with WUW-SR and command (activate) it by using our voice only (no push to talk as is presently done). WUW's front-end is designed, and implemented in Altera DSP development kit with Cyclone III FPGA as a portable system acting as a processor that is capable of computing three different sets of features at a much faster rate than software. It is cost effective, consumes very little power, and it is not limited by having to operate on a general-purpose computer so it can be used on any portable device.
Download or read book Digital Speech Processing written by A. Nejat Ince and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After alm ost three scores of years of basic and applied research, the field of speech processing is, at present, undergoing a rapid growth in terms of both performance and applications and this is fueHed by the advances being made in the areas of microelectronics, computation and algorithm design.Speech processing relates to three aspects of voice communications: -Speech Coding and transmission which is mainly concerned with man-to man voice communication. -Speech Synthesis which deals with machine-to-man communication. -Speech Recognition which is related to man-to-machine communication. Widespread application and use of low-bit rate voice codec.>, synthesizers and recognizers which are all speech processing products requires ideaHy internationally accepted quality assessment and evaluation methods as weH as speech processing standards so that they may be interconnected and used independently of their designers and manufacturers without costly interfaces. This book presents, in a tutorial manner, both fundamental and applied aspects of the above topics which have been prepared by weH-known specialists in their respective areas. The book is based on lectures which were sponsored by AGARD/NATO and delivered by the authors, in several NATO countries, to audiences consisting mainly of academic and industrial R&D engineers and physicists as weH as civil and military C3I systems planners and designers.
Download or read book Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines written by for the National Academy of Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction has long been populated with conversational computers and robots. Now, speech synthesis and recognition have matured to where a wide range of real-world applicationsâ€"from serving people with disabilities to boosting the nation's competitivenessâ€"are within our grasp. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines takes the first interdisciplinary look at what we know about voice processing, where our technologies stand, and what the future may hold for this fascinating field. The volume integrates theoretical, technical, and practical views from world-class experts at leading research centers around the world, reporting on the scientific bases behind human-machine voice communication, the state of the art in computerization, and progress in user friendliness. It offers an up-to-date treatment of technological progress in key areas: speech synthesis, speech recognition, and natural language understanding. The book also explores the emergence of the voice processing industry and specific opportunities in telecommunications and other businesses, in military and government operations, and in assistance for the disabled. It outlines, as well, practical issues and research questions that must be resolved if machines are to become fellow problem-solvers along with humans. Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines provides a comprehensive understanding of the field of voice processing for engineers, researchers, and business executives, as well as speech and hearing specialists, advocates for people with disabilities, faculty and students, and interested individuals.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Speech Recognition written by Lawrence R. Rabiner and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Factors in the Design of Speech Systems Interfaces written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Factors and Voice Interactive Systems written by Daryle Gardner-Bonneau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-03 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Human Factors and Voice Interactive Systems, in addition to updating chapters from the first edition, adds in-depth information on current topics of major interest to speech application developers. These topics include use of speech technologies in automobiles, speech in mobile phones, natural language dialogue issues in speech application design, and the human factors design, testing, and evaluation of interactive voice response (IVR) applications.
Download or read book Designing Effective Speech Interfaces written by Susan Weinschenk and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-03-03 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the critical knowledge you need to design speech-enabled applications It's not just a far-fetched gizmo straight out of a sci-fi movie anymore. Speech interface technology, which allows a user to communicate with computers via voice instead of a keyboard or a mouse, is quickly becoming a main feature in new software. This straightforward guide provides traditional graphical user-interface designers, developers, usability engineers, and product managers with all the information they need to make a rapid transition in order to stay abreast of this monumental shift in technology. Weinschenk and Barker, two experts in state-of-the-art online communication, discuss the basics of speech interfaces and speech technology, hardware, and software. They clearly explain the interface design principles that are applied to S/GUI and AUI interfaces and describe the latest practices of leading experts. In addition to its in-depth look at speech technologies and the different types of user interfaces, this book: * Provides an overview of the field of human factors and defines the basic concepts of human computer interaction * Discusses the current state of speech technology applications * Explains the laws of human factors that apply to speech interfaces * Contains guidelines and examples for user control, human limitation, model integrity, accommodation, clear dialogue, and aesthetic integrity * Details the best practices in interface design and usability engineering * Explores the special issues involved in interface design for disabled persons Visit the companion web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/weinschenk/ for a categorized resource list of speech, speech interface, and human-computer interaction books, articles, and links.
Download or read book Design of a Limited Speech Recognition System for Use in a Braille Teaching Device written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report here submitted defines the scope and content of the Electrical and Biomedical Engineering Capstone Project as submitted by Brett Lindsay. This project involved the creation of a limited Speech Recognition system for use in a Braille Teaching Device. The greater project (that of the Braille Teaching Device) was completed in tandem with Messrs. Chris Agam and Jonathon Hernandez. It was felt that the Speech Recognition component would be a valuable addition to the project due to the nature of a teaching device for use by the visually impaired (who would need an assistant to use said device). The Speech Recognition system was creating by breaking the problem into four subsections: the collection of data upon call by the teaching program, the manipulation of data, the recognition algorithms to categorize said data, and the passing of results back to the teaching program. For the recognition block, the relatively simple method of Dynamic Time Warping was chosen over more complex options such as Hidden Markov Models or Neural Networks. This method presented some problems as documented, specifically a tendency to favour letters with larger file sizes (such as 'w'). The Speech Recognition system created during the course of this project failed to deliver on the wanted efficiency of 60 % and low as possible false positives. While the Speech Recognition presented is viable, the effectiveness is below that which can be found in market for comparable price.
