Speech input from older users in smart environments: Challenges and perspectives

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5615 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2009, Pages 117-126

  Vipperla, Ravichander ^a,b   Wolters, Maria ^a,b   Georgila, Kallirroi ^a,b   Renals, Steve ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; INTELLIGENT ADAPTATION; INTERACTION PATTERN; LANGUAGE MODEL; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; OLDER PEOPLE; OLDER USERS; ROBUST SYSTEMS; SMART ENVIRONMENT; SPECIFIC ADAPTATIONS; SPEECH INPUT; USER GROUPS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR DETECTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350326273     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02710-9_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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