Presentation agents for speech user interfaces
Jaakko Hakulinen, Markku Turunen · 2000
In this paper we introduce a presentation agent framework for speech applications. In this framework presentation agents are used to produce dynamic, adaptive and prosody rich speech outputs. Using this framework in our speechonly e-mail reader we have been able to handle multilingual issues and support different user groups. Our goal is to build unique computer `voices' to make speech outputs more intelligible and pleasant for the users. Keywords Speech user interfaces, speech output, user interface agents, dynamic output generation, prosody INTRODUCTION In current speech user interfaces speech output is often treated in a very inefficient way. Usually speech output is generated using a fixed string that is sent to a synthesizer. It is not uncommon that the resulting utterance is unpleasant and unintelligible for the user. To improve speech output we should use dynamic, adaptive and highly context sensitive messages. It is noteworthy that different people prefer different types of...