Shall we mix synthetic speech and human speech? Impact on users' performance, perception, and attitude

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 158-165

  Gong, Li ^a   Lai, Jennifer ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency; Email and calendar; Mixing human speech and synthetic speech; Speech applications; Telephone based solution; Virtual assistant

Indexed keywords

CONSISTENCY; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; DYNAMIC CONTENT; EMAIL MESSAGES; HUMAN SPEECH; HUMAN VOICE; SPEECH APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL ASSISTANT;

ELECTRONIC MAIL; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MIXING; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0035037205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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