Voice interaction design : crafting the new conversational speech systems /

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 wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Randy Allen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, [2005]
Series:Morgan Kaufmann series in interactive technologies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; Speech; Sound and Meaning; Doing things with Words; Conversation; Glue; Diction; Crafting Voice Interfaces; The Team and the Process; Users, Tasks; Building the Discourse Model; Agents; Dialogue Matters; Scripting; Iterative Evaluation; Conclusion-Pursuing Habitability; Glossary.