Year: 1996
Type: dissertation
Abstract: As people find themselves travelling more and more, remote access to information becomes imperative.And as they find themselves trying to juggle more and more activities at once, the ability to multitask becomes imperative as well.NewsPhone, a conversational interface to news, attempts to provide a ubiquitous, speech only solution to the stated problems.As a telephone based service, NewsPhone uses speech recognition and speech synthesis to provide a user news information.Furthermore, as a project developed in the Speech Interface Groupas part of the News in the Future Consortiumat the MIT Media Lab, NewsPhone addresses the issue of a conversational interface and the underlying architecture necessary to support it.
Author: James C. Clemens
Language: English
Topic: Speech and dialogue systems
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2282417185