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AAC in the 21st century
Published in Alex Mihailidis, Roger Smith, Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023
H. Shane, J. Costello, J. Seale, K. Fulcher-Rood, K. Caves, J. Buxton, E. Rose, R. McCarthy, J. Higginbotham
Perhaps there is no clearer demonstration of the intelligibility of current speech synthesis than the successful control of voice recognition technologies used for home automation through synthetic speech commands (Medcalf, 2017). Popular voice-controlled devices such as the Amazon Alexa Echo system or Google Home voice control can be used to activate music, make web-based phone calls, and control integrated home automation. They can be activated with synthetic speech commands from many speech synthesizers. Much like the naturally spoken command with the human voice, failed recognition is often due to the rate of speech and pause time between the activation word and the command.
Application of AI in Smart Cities
Published in Om Prakash Jena, Sudhansu Shekhar Patra, Mrutyunjaya Panda, Zdzislaw Polkowski, S. Balamurugan, Industrial Transformation, 2022
Mehtab Alam, Ihtiram Raza Khan
Speech recognition is used in converting and transforming the speech of humans into a more useful and comprehensive format for the computer applications to process and use. The use of speech recognition is gaining popularity at a very fast pace. Applications and devices like Siri and Amazon Alexa use speech recognition technology to perform and complete tasks and actions. Hidden Markov models are considered to be useful tools for speech recognition (Bourlard and Morgan 1993).
Anthropomorphizing artificial intelligence: towards a user-centered approach for addressing the challenges of over-automation and design understandability in smart homes
Published in Intelligent Buildings International, 2021
Socialization/social responses with these equipments/devices/objects in a smart home are easy to generate, commonplace, incurable and subconscious, as the object-centered history of smart homes indicates (Table 1), for example, the treatment of nonhuman companion robots by humans with the same feelings associated with friendship which should, according to sociologists, instead be reserved only for human friends. Reversely, consumer technologies are also proactively training themselves in order to be as friendly and humanistic as possible based on the user feedback. For example, with Apple's Siri Home app, just voice is enough to control air conditioners, air purifiers, bridges, cameras, doorbells, fans, faucets, garage doors, humidifiers, lights, locks, outlets, receivers, routers, security, sensors, speakers, sprinklers, switches, thermostats, TVs and windows, etc. in a smart home (Apple 2020). Similarly, Amazon's Alexa – a cloud-based voice service that allows users to interact with technologies present in their smart homes – acts whether automatically or can be controlled via voice (Amazon Alexa 2020). Microsoft's Cortana is also a personal productivity assistant that helps in coordination of multiple tasks simultaneously reducing the human effort to a minimum (Microsoft Cortana 2020).