http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/ Voice User Interface Designers Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:51:27 GMT Peter Nann http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1808 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1808 Just on the motivate/time limit idea - I think that would skew people massively to the DTMF option - The first time they have a mis-rec they will say "Gee, Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:53:45 GMT philshinn http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1807 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1807 Does anyone know of any experimental studies that have investigated differences in intelligibility of male versus female voice stimuli for elder listeners over Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:37:46 GMT Bruce Papazian http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1806 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1806 All good advice so far, I think. I'm thinking (outloud) that the study may benefit from simplification too and from going the way of within subject design Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:57:03 GMT Phillip Hunter http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1805 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1805 You should have them do three things. They should read it aloud first so they can make sure they understand how it should sound to themselves. They should Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:57:00 GMT Phillip Hunter http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1804 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1804 Some of you who've had the (mis)fortune of hearing or reading my occasional rants and ramblings know that I believe very strongly that we who do voice Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:16:55 GMT James R. Lewis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1803 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1803 Like Melanie Polkosky indicated in a previous response, you've got a potentially mind-boggling sample size at your disposal. Six prompt types with 500 Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:41:21 GMT ronbowman6953 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1802 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1802 ... they input? The latest version of Excel has text to speech. That would be one way to allow them to listen to TTS output.Carl TurnerHuman Factors Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:39:20 GMT ronbowman6953 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1801 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1801 Thanks Jim, I will take this one back to the developers. Regards, Ron--- ... lot. ... road ... and ... don't Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:58 GMT Peter Krogh http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1800 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1800 Do you honestly expect me to rewrite every single GeriatriPrompt in my apps? We have thousands of them. ("How many channels can't you see, sweetie?") Forget Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:31:51 GMT polkosky http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1799 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1799 Hi Jared, First I'd like to applaud your efforts here and also say that I greatly respect your decision to open your work to feedback from the whole community. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:15:59 GMT philshinn http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1798 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1798 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/us/07aging.html?hp Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:03:05 GMT Senturia, Martha http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1797 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1797 Agreed, and if you're using an Address SSML tag (which may or may not be appropriate for that context), your TTS engine should be able to handle a lot of the Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:39:10 GMT James R. Lewis http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1796 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1796 If there are certain kinds of abbreviations you can anticipate (e.g., "Hwy" for "Highway"), then you should put these into an exception dictionary. That way, Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:20:58 GMT Chuck Wooters http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1795 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1795 Hi Jared, This sounds like a very interesting study. Will you be able to share your results with the community? Best, Chuck ... Re: [vuids] Nuance/VocaLabs Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:54:37 GMT Carl Turner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1794 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vuids/message/1794 Is there any way to require the data entry people to listen to what they input? The latest version of Excel has text to speech. That would be one way to allow