The integration of textual, graphical, video, tactile, speech, and other audio interfaces through the use of mouse, stylus, fingers, keyboard, display, camera, microphone, and/or GPS.
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Voice-Enabled User Interfaces for Mobile Devices
Louise E. Moser (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) and P.M. Melliar-Smith (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright: © 2008
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-871-0.ch027
Abstract
The use of a voice interface, along with textual, graphical, video, tactile, and audio interfaces, can improve the experience of the user of a mobile device. Many applications can benefit from voice input and output on a mobile device, including applications that provide travel directions, weather information, restaurant and hotel reservations, appointments and reminders, voice mail, and e-mail. We have developed a prototype system for a mobile device that supports client-side, voice-enabled applications. In fact, the prototype supports multimodal interactions but, here, we focus on voice interaction. The prototype includes six voice-enabled applications and a program manager that manages the applications. In this chapter we describe the prototype, including design issues that we faced, and evaluation methods that we employed in developing a voice-enabled user interface for a mobile device.