Tag Archives: vui

Speaking to your calendar

”[We describe] a calendar management application to demonstrate our vision for intuitive interfaces that enable humans to communicate with their mobile phones via natural spoken dialogue. For this vision to be realized, many technology advances must be made: we must go beyond speech recognition/synthesis, and include language understanding/generation and dialogue modeling. Another factor critical to [...]

Literacy and voice prompts

Jan Chipchase wrote about MotoFone recently:
“The Motofone is being marketed as a device that amongst other things aspires to “help bridge literacy gaps” including voice prompts to “guide the user quickly and easily through menu navigation, messaging and other functions”. It’s good to see illiteracy raised to the point where it becomes a marketing feature [...]

Designing speech UIs

Following is an excerpt from the introduction to “Designing Effective Speech Interfaces”.
“I think it�s because speech is something that is uniquely human. Dogs bark, and chimpanzees can communicate with �written� language, but only humans talk. To talk is to be human, and HAL and �Computer� stick in our memory because they are computers with uniquely [...]