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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Voice Assistants"”.
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Voice wars : smart speakers, voice assistants, and strategies for building a successful voice ecosystem
In recent years, voice-powered digital assistants have exploded into the consumer mainstream as an important new form of human-computer interaction. Powered by dramatic improvements in speech recognition and artificial intelligence (Al) technologies over the last decade, digital voice assistants …
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When Less Can Be More: Evaluating the Impact of Animated and Interactive Demonstrations in Voice-Assisted Counting Games for Young Children
… development. Despite the increasing use of voice assistants in young children's math learning, the effectiveness of different levels of demonstration—animated and interactive—accompanied by these assistants remains unclear. This study examines how different demonstrations in touchscreen …
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Aqueduct: Task-based entry points in Android apps
Modern smartphones offer voice assistants to ease a variety of tasks. However, the actions that can be performed by current voice assistants are limited – a predefined set of built in actions like checking the weather, and a few hooks that can be built into third-party applications. To extend …
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Source localization from voice signals
… Practically speaking, the aim is to allow smart voice assistants, such as Amazon Echo or Google Home, which possess a small array of microphones, to locate human speakers by determining the location of their voice in space. Although such voice assistants are currently capable of determining the …
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Unfairness Assessment, Explanation and Mitigation in Machine Learning Models for Personalization
… of Artificial Intelligence is represented by voice assistants, like Alexa. They enable people to use their voice to perform simple tasks, such as setting an alarm or saving an appointment in an online calendar. Due to their worldwide usage, voice assistants are required to aid a diverse range …
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Viðskiptalegir ávinningar talþjóna og notkun þeirra á Íslandi
Notkun talþjóna (e. Voice Assistants) fer hratt vaxandi erlendis og sérstaklega ef horft er til Bandaríkjanna, en þar eru talþjónar orðnir hluti 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 …
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Performance evaluation of deep learning on smartphones
… cars and autonomous robotics to web search and voice assistants. It is fair to say that it is omnipresent and here to stay. It is deployed in all sorts of devices ranging from consumer electronics to Internet of Things (IoT). Such a deployment is categorized as inference at the edge. This thesis …
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Actively exploiting propagation delay for acoustic systems
… human speaker. By aligning the arrivals of the voice signal at different times, we compute user location within an optimization framework, serving as a valuable context for smart voice assistants like Amazon Echo and Google Home. (3) We design 3D directional sound by actively synthesizing …
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Simulating LLM Runtime Latency
… own cost and latency targets. For example, AI voice assistants operate under low latency objectives, while large document batch processing jobs are typically cost-sensitive. However, navigating these trade-offs is not trivial, as LLM latency is highly task– specific and depends on factors such …
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Preschoolers' Mathematical Language Learning during Book Reading with an AI Voice Agent
… of media technologies, the accessibility of voice assistants and smart speakers powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) has notably increased. However, there is a paucity of knowledge about how this advanced technology can be used to teach young children important mathematical concepts during …
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Inaudible acoustics: Techniques and applications
… devices, including phones, laptops, voice assistants, and IoT devices, to leverage the capability. Example applications include acoustic data beacons, acoustic watermarking, and spy-microphone jamming. In Ripple, we develop modulation and sensing techniques for vibratory signals that …
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The Use of the CAfFEINE Framework in a Step-by-Step Assembly Guide
… technology is becoming more interactive with voice assistants like Siri. However, interactive systems such as Siri make mistakes. The purpose of this thesis is to explore using affect as an implicit feedback channel so that such mistakes would be easily corrected in real time. The CAfFEINE …
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The impact of cultural differences towards product innovation in smartphone industry: a cross cultural study on consumers from Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom
… in adoption of latest smartphone features (Voice Assistants, Digital Payments). It also contributes to body of knowledge by confirming the impact and relevance of culture in technological industry. The study provides an in-depth analysis in the area which is underdeveloped theoretically and …
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Teilhabegerechtigkeit bei der digitalen Inklusion älterer Erwachsener: Eine Potenzialanalyse von Sprachassistenten
… surrounding older adults’ adoption and use of Voice Assistants (VAs), focusing on digital participation equity from theologic-ethical and social perspectives. Through an extensive series of methodologically diverse studies—including systematic literature reviews, laboratory experiments, …
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On instabilities and trust in deep learning
… influencing everything from search engines and voice assistants to medical diagnostics and self-driving cars. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have brought AI closer to mimicking human-like text generation, raising discussions about AI’s potential to pass the Turing Test. …
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AI Education for the AI Generation: A Study of Computer Science Student Attitudes Towards AI Ethics and Implications for CS Curricula
… a variety of domains and settings, from AI voice assistants like Siri to an AI overview on Google searches to Waymo self-driving cars. Computer science (CS) students studying AI therefore find themselves at the forefront of learning about and using cutting-edge AI technologies. Their dual …
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Wake guard: Protecting smart speakers’ wake words with audio watermarking
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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Attention-Based Encoder-Decoder Models for Speech Processing
… Speech recognition technology is widely used in voice assistants and dictation systems. It converts speech signals into text. Traditionally, Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), as a generative sequence-to-sequence model, are widely used as the backbone of an acoustic model. Under the Source-Channel …
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Beyond the Echo: Exploring Usage, Anthropomorphism and User-Smart Object Relationships in the Age of Amazon Alexa
… 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 successful adoption …