Chapter 5
Speech Technologies
“It only works if you ask it a budget question.”
“When speech recognition becomes genuinely reliable, this will cause another big change in operating systems.”
Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (1995)
To create usable speech interfaces designers must first be familiar with the basic concepts and terminology relevant to the input and output of speech to a computer (or other electronic system). This chapter offers an introduction to specific technologies that affect interaction design using speech and audition.
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