Universalizing Speech: Notes from the USI Project

This paper discusses progress in designing a standardized interface for speech interaction with simple machines -- the Universal Speech Interface (USI) project. We discuss the motivation for such a design and issues that must be addressed by such an interface. We present our current proposals for handling these issues, and comment on the usability of these approaches based on user interactions with the system. Finally, we discuss future work and plans for the USI project

A Unified Design for Human-Machine Voice Interaction

We describe a unified design for voice interaction with simple machines; discuss the motivation for and main features of the approach, include a short sample interaction, and report the results of two preliminary experiments. Keywords: Spoken dialog systems, speech, user interfac

Requirements for Automatically Generating Multi-Modal Interfaces for Complex Appliances

Several industrial and academic research groups are working to simplify the control of appliances and services by creating a truly universal remote control. Unlike the preprogrammed remote controls available today, these new controllers download a specification from the appliance or service and use it to automatically generate a remote control interface. This promises to be a useful approach because the specification can be made detailed enough to generate both speech and graphical interfaces. Unfortunately, generating good user interfaces can be difficult. Based on user studies and prototype implementations, this paper presents a set of requirements that we have found are needed for automatic interface generation systems to create high-quality user interfaces

Towards Every-Citizen's Speech Interface: An Application Generator for . . .

... speech interfaces is the portability problem, namely the considerable amount of labor, data and expertise needed to develop such interfaces in new domains. Under the Universal Speech Interface (USI) project, we have designed unified look-and-feel speech interfaces that employ semi-structured interaction and thus obviate the need for data collection. More importantly, the unified structure of USI-compliant interfaces makes possible the automatic generation of new interfaces from a terse, high-level specification. In this paper, we describe an application generator and accompanying toolkit that allow even non-programmers to generate and use fully functional speech interfaces to their chosen database in less than 15 minutes

ABSTRACT TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL SPEECH INTERFACE

We discuss our ongoing attempt to design and evaluate universal human-machine speech-based interfaces. We describe one such initial design suitable for database retrieval applications, and discuss its implementation in a movie information application prototype. Initial user studies provided encouraging results regarding the usability of the design, as well as suggest some questions for further investigation. 1

Towards A Universal Speech Interface

We discuss our ongoing attempt to design and evaluate universal human-machine speech-based interfaces. We describe one such initial design suitable for database retrieval applications, and discuss its implementation in a movie information application prototype. Initial user studies provided encouraging results regarding the usability of the design, as well as suggest some questions for further investigation

Requirements for Automatically Generating Multi-Modal Interfaces for Complex Appliances

Several industrial and academic research groups are working to simplify the control of appliances and services by creating a truly universal remote control. Unlike the preprogrammed remote controls available today, these new controllers download a specification from the appliance or service and use it to automatically generate a remote control interface. This promises to be a useful approach because the specification can be made detailed enough to generate both speech and graphical interfaces. Unfortunately, generating good user interfaces can be difficult. Based on user studies and prototype implementations, this paper presents a set of requirements that we have found are needed for automatic interface generation systems to create high-quality user interfaces.</p

Requirements for Automatically Generating Multi-Modal Interfaces for Complex Appliances

Several industrial and academic research groups are working to simplify the control of appliances and services by creating a truly universal remote control. Unlike the preprogrammed remote controls available today, these new controllers download a specification from the appliance or service and use it to automatically generate a remote control interface. This promises to be a useful approach because the specification can be made detailed enough to generate both speech and graphical interfaces. Unfortunately, generating good user interfaces can be difficult. Based on user studies and prototype implementations, this paper presents a set of requirements that we have found are needed for automatic interface generation systems to create high-quality user interfaces

Requirements for Automatically Generating Multi-Modal Interfaces for Complex Appliances

Several industrial and academic research groups are working to simplify the control of appliances and services by creating a truly universal remote control. Unlike the preprogrammed remote controls available today, these new controllers download a specification from the appliance or service and use it to automatically generate a remote control interface. This promises to be a useful approach because the specification can be made detailed enough to generate both speech and graphical interfaces. Unfortunately, generating good user interfaces can be difficult. Based on user studies and prototype implementations, this paper presents a set of requirements that we have found are needed for automatic interface generation systems to create high-quality user interfaces