Evaluating talking heads for smart home systems

ICMI'08: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 81-84

  Kühnel, Christine ^a   Weiss, Benjamin ^a   Wechsung, Ina ^a   Fagel, Sascha ^a   Möller, Sebastian ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multimodal UI; Smart home environments; Talking heads

Indexed keywords

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

LINEAR COMBINATIONS; MULTIMODAL UI; OVERALL QUALITIES; QUALITY ASPECTS; SMART HOME ENVIRONMENTS; SMART-HOME SYSTEMS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEMS; TALKING HEADS; USER STUDIES; VISUAL QUALITIES;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 63449131967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1452392.1452409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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