On the road and on the web? Comprehension of synthetic and human speech while driving

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 206-212

  Lai, Jennifer ^a   Cheng, Karen ^a   Green, Paul ^b   Tsimhoni, Omer ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Driving performance; Driving simulator; Speech synthesis; Text to speech

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; DRIVING PERFORMANCE; DRIVING SIMULATOR; EMAIL MESSAGES; HUMAN SPEECH; MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS; NATURAL SPEECH; NAVIGATION MESSAGES; SYNTHESIZED SPEECH; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TEXT TO SPEECH; TWO-LANE ROADS;

AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; ROADS AND STREETS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

EID: 0035040273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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