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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Amazon Alexa"”.
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Voice Control of Fetch Robot Using Amazon Alexa
… virtual assistants, such as Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google Assistant, do not currently have any physical functions. As an important part of the internet of things (IoT), the field of robotics has become a new trend in the usage of VA. In this project, a mobile robot, Fetch, is …
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Measuring the Functionality of Amazon Alexa and Google Home Applications
Voice Personal Assistant (VPA) is a software agent, which can interpret the user's voice commands and respond with appropriate information or action. The users can operate the VPA by voice to complete multiple tasks, such as read the message, order coffee, send an email, check the news, and so on. …
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Beyond the Echo: Exploring Usage, Anthropomorphism and User-Smart Object Relationships in the Age of Amazon Alexa
Characterised by their unique capabilities and autonomous nature, Voice-Controlled Smart Assistants (VCSAs) have rapidly gained popularity as one of the most prominent AI-based consumer technologies of this decade. However, while poised to revolutionise the customer journey, insight into the …
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Tools to create and democratize conversational artificial intelligence
… saturated with voice-first technology, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home devices. As this technology becomes more complex, the skill set needed to develop conversational AI applications increases as well. This work bridges the gap, democratizes AI technology, and empowers technology consumers …
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GROWING UP IN THE DIGITAL AGE: INVESTIGATING CHILDREN’S USE, JUDGMENT, AND ENGAGEMENT WITH INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES.
… every facet of their lives: at home asking the Amazon Alexa questions, in their play caring for a robot-dog, at school learning from an online avatar. This dissertation utilizes parental reports, child interviews, and experimental methods to examine how children use, judge, and engage with …
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Future talk : the race to build a bot that gabs like a human
… end of summer, Gunrock placed first in the 2018 Amazon Alexa Prize, a competition that challenges students to build the best "socialbot," a computer program that talks out loud and engages in "fun, high-quality conversations on popular societal topics." Although Gunrock is rudimentary compared to …
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Exploring Accessibility and Companionship in Boardgames via Alexa
… Based on these findings, we developed a CA using Amazon Alexa and 9 players who are BLV evaluated our CA in study 2. Our findings generated five design principles for CAs to support boardgame rule learning: conciseness, ease of navigation, customization, supplementary features, and social …
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Viðskiptalegir ávinningar talþjóna og notkun þeirra á Íslandi
… af daglegu lífi fólks. Dæmi um talþjóna eru Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant og Apple Siri. Enginn af þessum talþjónum styður við íslensku og er því Ísland langt á eftir í notkun á þessari tækni. Í þessari ritgerð verður rýnt í hvaða þróun á sér stað hérlendis, hvernig notkuninni er háttað og …
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Beyond Privacy Concerns: Examining Individual Interest in Privacy in the Machine Learning Era
… data to train speech recognition systems for Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, and the like has raised privacy concerns among consumers and privacy advocates. We use the enhanced APCO model as the theoretical lens to investigate how the disclosure of human involvement during the supervised …
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Alexa, dóna'm les notícies! Disseny d'un model pilot de servei informatiu públic per l'assistent de veu d'Amazon
… de veu - en particular, a l'assistent Alexa, d'Amazon. El treball utilitza la metodologia del disseny basat en usuari per identificar usuaris model i contextos d'ús, i apartir d'aquí estableix quins continguts s'han de servir, defineix la veu de la marca, desenvolupa un arbre de …
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Actively exploiting propagation delay for acoustic systems
… valuable context for smart voice assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home. (3) We design 3D directional sound by actively synthesizing different propagation delays at two ears using earphones. We develop algorithms that accurately track the 3D orientation of the head, a key enabler for …