EDA@C.CS.CMU.EDU.UUCP (05/05/87)
SPEAKER: Alexander Hauptmann TITLE: "Speaking to a Computer" DATE: Tuesday, May 5 TIME: 12:00 - 1:20 p.m. PLACE: Adamson Wing, Baker Hall ABSTRACT: This talk describes an empirical study of man-computer speech interaction. I will describe the experiment, its goals and outline the experimental design and the many results. The experiment shows that speech to a computer is not as ill-formed as one would expect. People speaking to a computer are more disciplined than when speaking to each other. There are large differences in the usage of spoken language compared to typed language, and several phenomena which are unique to spoken or typed input respectively. Usefulness for work in speech understanding systems for the future is considered.