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Evaluating talking heads for smart home systems

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ICMI '08: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Multimodal interfaces

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1452392.1452409

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In this paper we report the results of a user study evaluating talking heads in the smart home domain. Three noncommercial talking head components are linked to two freely available speech synthesis systems, resulting in six different combinations. The influence of head and voice components on overall quality is analyzed as well as the correlation between them. Three different ways to assess overall quality are presented. It is shown that these three are consistent in their results. Another important result is that in this design speech and visual quality are independent of each other. Furthermore, a linear combination of both quality aspects models overall quality of talking heads to a good degree.

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Evaluating talking heads for smart home systems
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods

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October 2008

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ISBN:9781605581989

DOI:10.1145/1452392

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UC Santa Barbara, USA
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Manresa-Yee CPonsa PArellano DLarrea M(2012)An avatar acceptance study for home automation scenariosProceedings of the 7th international conference on Articulated Motion and Deformable Objects10.1007/978-3-642-31567-1_23(230-238)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-31567-1_23
Weiss BKühnel CWechsung IFagel SMöller S(2010)Quality of talking heads in different interaction and media contextsSpeech Communication10.1016/j.specom.2010.02.01152:6(481-492)Online publication date: Jun-2010
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