Designing SpeechActs

Nicole Yankelovich, Gina‐Anne Levow, Matt Marx · 1995

SpeechActs is an t:xperimental conversational speech system.Experience with redesigning the system based on user feedback indicates the importance of adhering to conversational conventions when designing speech interfaces, particularly in the face of speech recognition errors.Study results also suggest that speech-only interfaces should be designed from scratch rather than directly translated from their graphical counterparts.Thi& paper examines a set of challenging issues facing speech inteIface designers and describes approaches to address some of these challenges.

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