Similarity is more important than expertise: Accent effects in speech interfaces

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1553-1556

  Dahlbäck, Nils ^a   Wang, Qianying ^b   Nass, Clifford ^b   Alwin, Jenny ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross cultural communication; Speech based systems; Trust and liking

Indexed keywords

SECURITY OF DATA; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; WEBSITES;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION; SPEECH BASED SYSTEMS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 35348908442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240859     Document Type: Conference Paper

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