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What Influences the Perceived Trust of a Voice-Enabled Smart Home System: An Empirical Study

open access: yesSensors, 2021
Contemporarily, almost all the global IT giants have aimed at the smart home industry and made an active strategic business layout. As the early-stage and entry-level product of the voice-enabled smart home industry, the smart speakers have been going ...
Yuqi Liu, Yan Gan, Yao Song, Jing Liu
doaj   +1 more source

You Are Not Alone: A Serial Mediation of Social Attraction, Privacy Concerns, and Satisfaction in Voice AI Use

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2023
The popularity of voice-activated artificial intelligence (voice AI) has grown rapidly as people continue to use smart speakers such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home to support everyday tasks. However, little is known about how loneliness relates to voice
Tae Rang Choi, Jung Hwa Choi
doaj   +1 more source

Smart streetlights for smart cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Streetlights are a key asset in any city as they provide a sense of safety and security to the public, especially pedestrians, and increase the quality of life by artificially extending the day.
Melone, Joseph, Bhagavathy, Sivapriya M.
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Combining Smart Speaker and Smart Meter to Infer Your Residential Power Usage by Self-supervised Cross-modal Learning

open access: yesProceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2023
Energy disaggregation is a key enabling technology for residential power usage monitoring, which benefits various applications such as carbon emission monitoring and human activity recognition.
Guanzhou Zhu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The voice of the underworld: Magical and political narratives of the smart speaker [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This essay interrogates the use of language in describing machine learning-enabled smart speakers and voice assistants, such as the Amazon Echo and its Alexa technology, arguing that particular dominant narratives obfuscate the deeper function of these ...
Goatley, Wesley
core   +4 more sources

Speaker segmentation and clustering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
07.08.13 KB. Ok to add the accepted version to Spiral, Elsevier says ok whlile mandate not enforced.This survey focuses on two challenging speech processing topics, namely: speaker segmentation and speaker clustering. Speaker segmentation aims at finding
Kotti, Margarita   +5 more
core   +1 more source

When Speakers Are All Ears: Characterizing Misactivations of IoT Smart Speakers [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, 2020
Abstract Internet-connected voice-controlled speakers, also known as smart speakers, are increasingly popular due to their convenience for everyday tasks such as asking about the weather forecast or playing music. However, such convenience comes with privacy risks: smart speakers need to constantly listen in order to activate when the ...
Daniel J. Dubois   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Cross-Lingual Speaker Discrimination Using Natural and Synthetic Speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper describes speaker discrimination experiments in which native English listeners were presented with either natural speech stimuli in English and Mandarin, synthetic speech stimuli in English and Mandarin, or natural Mandarin speech and ...
Wester, Mirjam; id_orcid   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Speaker similarity evaluation of foreign-accented speech synthesis using HMM-based speaker adaptation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This paper describes a speaker discrimination experiment in which native English listeners were presented with natural and synthetic speech stimuli in English and were asked to judge whether they thought the sentences were spoken by the same person or ...
Karhila, Reima   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Efficient Invariant Features for Sensor Variability Compensation in Speaker Recognition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
In this paper, we investigate the use of invariant features for speaker recognition. Owing to their characteristics, these features are introduced to cope with the difficult and challenging problem of sensor variability and the source of performance ...
Abderrezak Guessoum   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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