Voice Interaction Design
eBook - PDF

Voice Interaction Design

Crafting the New Conversational Speech Systems

  1. 624 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Voice Interaction Design

Crafting the New Conversational Speech Systems

About this book

From the voice on the phone, to the voice on the computer, to the voice from the toaster, speech user interfaces are coming into the mainstream and are here to stay forever. Soundly anchored in HCI, cognitive psychology, linguistics, and social psychology, this supremely practical book is loaded with examples, how-to advice, and design templates. Drawing widely on decades of research—in lexicography, conversation analysis, computational linguistics, and social psychology—author Randy Allen Harris outlines the principles of how people use language interactively, and illustrates every aspect of design work.In the first part of the book, Harris provides a thorough conceptual basis of language in all its relevant aspects, from speech sounds to conversational principles. The second part takes you patiently through the entire process of designing an interactive speech system: from team building to user profiles, to agent design, scripting, and evaluation. This book provides interaction designers with the knowledge and strategies to craft language-based applications the way users will expect them to behave.*Loaded with examples and practical synopses of the best practice. *An ideal combination of conceptual base, practical illustrations, and "how-to" advice—for design and for the entire design process.*Will bring novice voice designers fully up to speed, and give experienced designers a new understanding of the principles underlying human speech interaction, principles from which to improve voice interaction design.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Voice Interaction Design: Crafting the New Conversational Speech Systems
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. Introduction
  7. Chapter 2. Speech
  8. Chapter 3. Sound and Meaning
  9. Chapter 4. Doing Things with Words
  10. Chapter 5. Conversation
  11. Chapter 6. Glue
  12. Chapter 7. Diction
  13. Chapter 8. Crafting Voice Interfaces
  14. Chapter 9. The Team and the Process
  15. Chapter 10. Users, Tasks
  16. Chapter 11. Building the Discourse Model
  17. Chapter 12. Agents
  18. Chapter 13. Dialogue Matters
  19. Chapter 14. Scripting
  20. Chapter 15. Iterative Evaluation
  21. Chapter 16. Conclusion — Pursuing Habitability
  22. Glossary
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index