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The Prospects for Unrestricted Speech Input for TV Content Search

Citation: *  Wittenburg, K.; Lanning, T.; Schwenke, D.; Shubin, H.; Vetro, A., "The Prospects for Unrestricted Speech Input for TV Content Search", ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), May 2006 (AVI 2006)

Date:
May 2006

MERL Contacts: Kent Wittenburg, Derek Schwenke, Anthony Vetro

Abstract: The need for effective search for television content is growing as the number of choices for TV viewing and/or recording explodes. In this paper we describe a preliminary prototype of a multimodal Speech-In List-Out (SILO) interface in which users' input is unrestricted by vocabulary or grammar. We report on usability testing with a sample of six users. The prototype enables search through video content metadata download from an electronic program guide (EPG) service. Our setup for testing included adding a microphone to a TV remote control and running an application on a PC whose visual interface was displayed on a TV.

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