TalkBack: A conversational answering machine

UIST: Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Softaware and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 41-50

  Lakshmipathy, Vidya ^a   Schmandt, Chris ^a   Marmasse, Natalia ^a  

^a MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

Answering machine; Computer mediated communication; Conversational interface; Voicemail

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSUMER ELECTRONICS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELEPHONE;

ANSWERING MACHINES; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CONVERSATIONAL INTERFACES; VOICEMAIL;

VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 19544377845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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