Download or read book Designing Interactive Speech Systems written by Niels O. Bernsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of the design and implementation of spoken language dialogue within the context of spoken language dialogue systems development. Using an applications-oriented SLDS developed through the Danish Dialogue project, the authors describe the complete process involved; and in so doing present several innovative practical tools, such as dialogue design guidelines, in-depth evaluation methodologies, and speech functionality analysis. Their approach is firmly applications-oriented, describing the results applicable to industry and showing how the development of advanced applications drives research rather than vice versa. For everyone working on the R&D of spoken language services, especially in the area of telecommunications.
Download or read book Voice Interaction Design written by Randy Allen Harris and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the voice on the phone, to the voice on the computer, to the voice from the toaster, speech user interfaces are coming into the mainstream and are here to stay forever. Soundly anchored in HCI, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and social psychology, this supremely practical book is loaded with examples, how-to advice, and design templates. Drawing widely on decades of research—in lexicography, conversation analysis, computational linguistics, and social psychology—author Randy Allen Harris outlines the principles of how people use language interactively, and illustrates every aspect of design work. In the first part of the book, Harris provides a thorough conceptual basis of language in all its relevant aspects, from speech sounds to conversational principles. The second part takes you patiently through the entire process of designing an interactive speech system: from team building to user profiles, to agent design, scripting, and evaluation. This book provides interaction designers with the knowledge and strategies to craft language-based applications the way users will expect them to behave. *Loaded with examples and practical synopses of the best practice. *An ideal combination of conceptual base, practical illustrations, and "how-to" advice—for design and for the entire design process. *Will bring novice voice designers fully up to speed, and give experienced designers a new understanding of the principles underlying human speech interaction, principles from which to improve voice interaction design.
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 Evaluation of Text and Speech Systems written by Laila Dybkjær and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its nine chapters, this book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art and best practice in several sub-fields of evaluation of text and speech systems and components. The evaluation aspects covered include speech and speaker recognition, speech synthesis, animated talking agents, part-of-speech tagging, parsing, and natural language software like machine translation, information retrieval, question answering, spoken dialogue systems, data resources, and annotation schemes. With its broad coverage and original contributions this book is unique in the field of evaluation of speech and language technology. This book is of particular relevance to advanced undergraduate students, PhD students, academic and industrial researchers, and practitioners.
Download or read book Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems written by Björn Granström and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on contributions to the Seventh European Summer School on Language and Speech Communication that was held at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden, in July of 1999 under the auspices of the European Language and Speech Network (ELSNET). The topic of the summer school was "Multimodality in Language and Speech Systems" (MiLaSS). The issue of multimodality in interpersonal, face-to-face communication has been an important research topic for a number of years. With the increasing sophistication of computer-based interactive systems using language and speech, the topic of multimodal interaction has received renewed interest both in terms of human-human interaction and human-machine interaction. Nine lecturers contri buted to the summer school with courses on specialized topics ranging from the technology and science of creating talking faces to human-human communication, which is mediated by computer for the handicapped. Eight of the nine lecturers are represented in this book. The summer school attracted more than 60 participants from Europe, Asia and North America representing not only graduate students but also senior researchers from both academia and industry.
Download or read book Interactive Speech Technology written by Chris Baber and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with two important technologies in human-computer interaction: computer generation of synthetic speech and computer recognition of human speech. It addresses the problems in generating speech with varying precision of articulation and how to convey moods and attitudes.
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 2013-04-17 with total page 316 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 Designing Human Interface in Speech Technology written by Fang Chen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between the needs of the technical engineer and cognitive researchers related to speech technology applications. Systematic approach focusing on the utility of speech related product design Designed to respond to the growing need for specific theories, tools and methods for design, testing and evaluating speech related human-system interfaces. Targeted at designers, engineers, and decision makers working in the area of speech technology research
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 Designing Human Interface in Speech Technology written by Fang Chen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between the needs of the technical engineer and cognitive researchers related to speech technology applications. Systematic approach focusing on the utility of speech related product design Designed to respond to the growing need for specific theories, tools and methods for design, testing and evaluating speech related human-system interfaces. Targeted at designers, engineers, and decision makers working in the area of speech technology 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 Interactive Speech Technology written by Chris Baber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the two important technologies in human-computer interaction, computer generation of synthetic speech and computer recognition of human speech. The book focuses on three main areas - recognition, production and dialogue.
Download or read book Quantifying Quality Aspects of Multimodal Interactive Systems written by Christine Kühnel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically addresses the quantification of quality aspects of multimodal interactive systems. The conceptual structure is based on a schematic view on human-computer interaction where the user interacts with the system and perceives it via input and output interfaces. Thus, aspects of multimodal interaction are analyzed first, followed by a discussion of the evaluation of output and input and concluding with a view on the evaluation of a complete system.
Download or read book Spoken Dialogue Technology written by Michael F. McTear and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spoken Dialogue Technology provides extensive coverage of spoken dialogue systems, ranging from the theoretical underpinnings of the study of dialogue through to a detailed look at a number of well-established methods and tools for developing spoken dialogue systems. The book enables students and practitioners to design and test dialogue systems using several available development environments and languages, including the CSLU toolkit, VoiceXML, SALT, and XHTML+ voice. This practical orientation is usually available otherwise only in reference manuals supplied with software development kits. The latest research in spoken dialogue systems is presented along with extensive coverage of the most relevant theoretical issues and a critical evaluation of current research prototypes. A dedicated web site containing supplementary materials, code, links to resources will enable readers to develop and test their own systems (). Previously such materials have been difficult to track down, available only on a range of disparate web sites and this web site provides a unique and useful reference source which will prove invaluable.
Download or read book Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience Methodologies and Principles written by Spiliotopoulos, Tasos and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book provides a link between theoretical research and web engineering, presenting a more holistic approach to web usability"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Design User Experience and Usability Design for Contemporary Interactive Environments written by Aaron Marcus and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From a total of 6326 submissions, a total of 1439 papers and 238 posters has been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings. The 50 papers included in this volume were organized in topical sections on interactions in intelligent and IoT environments, usability aspects of handheld and mobile devices, designing games and immersive experiences, and UX studies in automotive and transport.
Download or read book Speech Technology written by Fang Chen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an overview of the research and application of speech technologies in different areas. One of the special characteristics of the book is that the authors take a broad view of the multiple research areas and take the multidisciplinary approach to the topics. One of the goals in this book is to emphasize the application. User experience, human factors and usability issues are the focus in this book.
