TY - GEN
T1 - On how deaf people might use speech to control devices
AU - Bigham, Jeffrey P.
AU - Kushalnagar, Raja
AU - Huang, Ting Hao Kenneth
AU - Flores, Juan Pablo
AU - Savage, Saiph
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Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/10/19
Y1 - 2017/10/19
N2 - Smart devices connected to the Internet are proliferating. To reduce costs of devices that have traditionally been inexpensive (toasters, microwaves, printers, etc), many of these devices have chosen to use a speech interface rather than a visual one. This transition has been hastened by the increasing capabilities of speech interfaces, exemplified by products like Amazon Echo and Apple's Siri. A consequence of these products moving to voice control is that people who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) may be unable to use them. In this paper, we briefly introduce two technical approaches we are pursuing for enabling DHH people to provide input to these devices: (i) human computation workflows for understanding "deaf speech," and (ii) mobile interfaces that can be instructed to speak on the user's behalf.
AB - Smart devices connected to the Internet are proliferating. To reduce costs of devices that have traditionally been inexpensive (toasters, microwaves, printers, etc), many of these devices have chosen to use a speech interface rather than a visual one. This transition has been hastened by the increasing capabilities of speech interfaces, exemplified by products like Amazon Echo and Apple's Siri. A consequence of these products moving to voice control is that people who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) may be unable to use them. In this paper, we briefly introduce two technical approaches we are pursuing for enabling DHH people to provide input to these devices: (i) human computation workflows for understanding "deaf speech," and (ii) mobile interfaces that can be instructed to speak on the user's behalf.
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U2 - 10.1145/3132525.3134821
DO - 10.1145/3132525.3134821
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041427354
T3 - ASSETS 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 383
EP - 384
BT - ASSETS 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2017
Y2 - 29 October 2017 through 1 November 2017
ER -