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Smart Speaker Recommendations: Impact of Gender Congruence and Amount of Information on Users' Engagement and Choice

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
The relevance of smart speakers is steadily increasing, allowing users perform several daily tasks. From a commercial perspective, smart speakers also provide recommendations of products and services that may influence the consumer decision-making ...
Jaime Romero   +3 more
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Studying Breakdowns in Interactions with Smart Speakers

open access: yesCoRR, 2019
Proceedings of the CHI 2019 Workshop on New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care, (arXiv:1906.06089)
Avdic, Mirzel, Vermeulen, Jo
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Can healthcare apps and smart speakers improve the health behavior and depression of older adults? A quasi-experimental study

open access: yesFrontiers in Digital Health, 2023
PurposeThis study identified the effects of applying information and communication technologies (ICT) to the health management of older adults aged 65 or older.MethodsOlder adults registered at public health centers were provided with the health ...
Dasom Kim
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Zero-Shot Unseen Speaker Anonymization via Voice Conversion

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2022
Speech-based interfaces provide convenient methods for controlling various smart devices. For these interfaces to work reliably, considerable speech data with various noise and speaker characteristics must be collected to train the associated speech ...
Hyung-Pil Chang   +3 more
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Privacy and smart speakers: A multi-dimensional approach [PDF]

open access: yesThe Information Society, 2021
Over the last few years, smart speakers such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have become increasingly present within British households.
Christoph Lutz, Gemma Newlands
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“Like another human being in the room”: a community case study of smart speakers to reduce loneliness in the oldest-old

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
This community case study examined the potential benefits of smart speakers to tackle loneliness in the oldest old adults living in supported accommodation. The program was established as a collaboration between the supported accommodation provider and a
Arlene Astell   +5 more
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Defending against FakeBob Adversarial Attacks in Speaker Verification Systems with Noise-Adding

open access: yesAlgorithms, 2022
Speaker verification systems use human voices as an important biometric to identify legitimate users, thus adding a security layer to voice-controlled Internet-of-things smart homes against illegal access.
Zesheng Chen   +4 more
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Voice Control Smart Home Electrical Appliances for Visually Impaired Person

open access: yesJournal of Engineering Technology and Applied Physics, 2022
This paper proposed a voice control based smart home electrical appliances for visually impaired person. This voice control smart home system decreases the time taken for visually impaired person to control their home electrical ...
Swee Chuan Wang   +2 more
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Location-Aware Speakers for the Virtual Reality Environments

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2017
This paper presents location-aware speakers for the immersive virtual reality environments as well as conventional surround sound systems. The surround sound system generally requires multiple speakers fixed in specific positions and connected to ...
Chang Ha Lee
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Usability Analysis of Smart Speakers from a Learnability Perspective for Novel Users

open access: yesApplied System Innovation
Although commercial smart speakers are becoming increasingly popular, there is still much potential for investigation into their usability. In this study, we analyzed the usability of commercial smart speakers by focusing on the learnability of young ...
Toshihisa Doi, Yuki Nishikawa
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