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Can healthcare apps and smart speakers improve the health behavior and depression of older adults? A quasi-experimental study

Frontiers 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

IEEE 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, In-Chul Yoo, Changhyeon Jeong, Dongsuk Yook   +3 more
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Privacy and smart speakers: A multi-dimensional approach [PDF]

The 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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Exploring Smart Speaker User Experience for People Who Stammer

International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2022
Speech-enabled smart speakers are common devices used for numerous tasks in everyday life. While speech-enabled technologies are widespread, using one’s voice as a computing modality introduces new accessibility challenges for people with speech ...
Anna Bleakley, D. Rough, Abi Roper, Stephen Lindsay, Martin Porcheron, Minha Lee, S. Nicholson, Benjamin R. Cowan, L. Clark   +8 more
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Studying Breakdowns in Interactions with Smart Speakers

CoRR, 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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Speaker Diarization: Its Developments, Applications, And Challenges [PDF]

, 2012
Multimedia computing is an emerging research area with a wide range of possibilities for various types of digital media. For instance television, movie, audio broadcast, and meeting recordings can be analysed to derive semantic value.
Hernawan , Sulistyanto
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Smart speaker devices can improve speech intelligibility in adults with intellectual disability.

International journal of language and communication disorders, 2021
BACKGROUND Successful communication is vital to quality of life. One group commonly facing speech and communication difficulties is individuals with intellectual disability (ID).
Elizabeth Smith, P. Sumner, C. Hedge, Georgina Powell   +3 more
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Overlapping care and control: Insights from Romanian smart speaker users

Media, Culture & Society
My research delves into the intricacies of smart speakers technology and its adoption by Romanian users, despite the absence of direct sales and Romanian language support.
Raluca Creangă
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Smart Speaker

, 2023
Intelligente, mit dem Internet verbundene Lautsprecher inklusive Spracherkennung sowie -steuerung – sogenannte Sprachassistenzsysteme oder Smart Speaker – sind in immer mehr Privathaushalten zu finden.
Fjodorovs, Nikita, Kalla, Marvin
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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

Frontiers 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, Arlene Astell, Arlene Astell, Arlene Astell, Arlene Astell, David Clayton   +5 more
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