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Human Factors and Voice Interactive Systems, Second Edition provides in-depth information on current topics of major interest to speech application developers, and updates material from chapters that appeared in the previous edition.
The first nine chapters of the book cover issues related to interactive voice response systems, including both mobile and multimodal device user interfaces as well as classic automated telephone systems. The remaining chapters cover special topics including synthetic speech and the design of speech applications to enhance accessibility to people with disabilities and the ever-growing population of older adults.
Human Factors and Voice Interactive Systems, Second Edition is a collection of applied research and scholarly synthesis contributions by seasoned professionals in the field that highlight continuing efforts to study human interaction with speech technologies.
Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI
Ivr Usability Engineering Using Guidelines And Analyses Of End-to-End Calls....Pages 1-41
User Interface Design for Natural Language Systems: From Research to Reality....Pages 43-80
Linguistics and Psycholinguistics in IVR Design....Pages 81-115
Designing the Voice User Interface for Automated Directory Assistance....Pages 117-134
Spoken Language Interfaces for Embedded Applications....Pages 135-161
Speech Generation in Mobile Phones....Pages 163-191
Voice Messaging User Interface....Pages 193-229
Silence Locations And Durations In Dialog Management....Pages 231-253
Using Natural Dialogs as the Basis for Speech Interface Design....Pages 255-290
Telematics: Artificial Passenger and Beyond....Pages 291-325
A Language to Write Letter-To-Sound Rules for English and French....Pages 327-360
Virtual Sentences of Spontaneous Speech: Boundary Effects of Syntactic-Semantic-Prosodic Properties....Pages 361-379
Text-To-Speech Formant Synthesis For French....Pages 381-416
Accessibility And Speech Technology: Advancing Toward Universal Access....Pages 417-442
Synthesized Speech Used For The Evaluation Of Childrenβs Hearing And Speech Perception....Pages 443-459
Back Matter....Pages 461-469
Signal, Image and Speech Processing; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
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