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Understanding User Perceptions of Proactive Smart Speakers

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2021
Voice assistants, such as Amazon's Alexa and Google Home, increasingly find their way into consumer homes. Their functionality, however, is currently limited to being passive answer machines rather than proactively engaging users in conversations. Speakers' proactivity would open up a range of important application scenarios, including health services,
Jing Wei 0002, Tilman Dingler, Vassilis Kostakos   +2 more
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Smart Speaker: Suspicious Event Detection with Reverse Mode Speakers

2019 42nd International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), 2019
Loudspeakers are transducers that convert electrical signals to sounds. However, it is well-known that in reverse mode, they can convert sounds to electrical signals. The paper studies the feasibility of designing an embedded system that detects suspicious events like gunshots or screaming by utilizing the reverse mode of loudspeakers.
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Smart-speaker science showdown

C&EN Global Enterprise, 2018
If your gift list this holiday season includes a smart speaker for a science enthusiast, you’ll want to watch C&EN’s latest episode of Speaking of Chemistry.
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Smart Room: Participant and Speaker Localization and Identification

Proceedings. (ICASSP '05). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2005., 2006
Our long-term objective is to create smart room technologies that are aware of the users presence and their behavior and can become an active, but not an intrusive, part of the interaction. In this work, we present a multimodal approach for estimating and tracking the location and identity of the participants including the active speaker.
Carlos Busso, Sergi Hernanz, Chi-Wei Chu, Soonil Kwon, Sung Lee, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Isaac Cohen, Shrikanth S. Narayanan   +7 more
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Voice Commerce - Studying the Acceptance of Smart Speakers

2020
To explain customers’ willingness to use smart speakers for online shopping (voice-commerce) an integrated explanatory model was developed. The model is based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT 2), which was expanded from the original model to include the construct of “perceived risk.” The postulated associations were ...
Silvia Zaharia, Matthias Würfel
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Development Status and Marketing Strategy of Smart Speakers

2020
2017 is the year of the explosion of smart speakers, because of the gradual maturity of voice interaction technology and the development of artificial intelligence technology. The production of smart speakers is constantly increasing, and the function of smart speakers is constantly improved and perfected.
Tianhong Fang, Xiaobo Fu
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AlexaPi3-An economical Smart Speaker

2018 IEEE Punecon, 2018
In the recent years, smart electronics have seen a rapid rise in the field of home automation and wireless digital technology. But the high costs of these devices restrict many people to use the features of these technologies. In this paper, I present an economical solution for a smart speaker such as Amazon Echo Dot.
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Speaker Recognition in Smart Environments

2010
Publisher Summary This chapter describes the principles of speaker recognition and their application in smart environments. Speaker recognition is the process of recognizing the speaker using speech signals, which can be classified as speaker identification and verification.
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Smart Speakers

Smart speakers have taken the world by storm and have become an essential part of many households. As the use of smart speakers becomes more prevalent, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in buying behavior has become increasingly important. With smart speakers becoming more intelligent and better integrated with AI, they have the potential to ...
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Would satisfaction with smart speakers transfer into loyalty towards the smart speaker provider?

2018
Voice-enabled smart devices are poised to become the next new thing as it provides convenience in fulfilling users' instant needs. The ability to provide information, control home systems, and manage daily schedules has made smart speakers become the new gateway to users' personal spaces.
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