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Data Privacy Concerns Using mHealth Apps and Smart Speakers: Comparative Interview Study Among Mature Adults [PDF]
JMIR Formative Research, 2022 BackgroundNew technologies such as mobile health (mHealth) apps and smart speakers make intensive use of sensitive personal data. Users are typically aware of this and express concerns about their data privacy.
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Voice-Assisted Technology for People With Parkinson's Disease Experiencing Speech and Voice Difficulties: Co-Designing Solutions Using Design Thinking [PDF]
JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive TechnologiesBackgroundWhile smart speakers are emerging as a novel health care technology, people with Parkinson's Disease (PwPD) and speech and language therapists (SaLTs) have reported difficulties using smart speakers with speech and voice
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Journal of Medical Internet ResearchBackgroundSmart speakers, such as Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Nest Home, combine natural language processing with a conversational interface to carry out everyday tasks, like playing music and finding information. Easy to use, they
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Speech Audiometry at Home: Automated Listening Tests via Smart Speakers With Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners [PDF]
Trends in Hearing, 2020 Speech audiometry in noise based on sentence tests is an important diagnostic tool to assess listeners’ speech recognition threshold (SRT), i.e., the signal-to-noise ratio corresponding to 50% intelligibility.
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Frontiers 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 ...
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MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medienbildung, 2021 Digital assistants increasingly infiltrate the world of children. The way they function reminds us somewhat of playmates, nannies and tutors. So far, educators have only marginally dealt with this new media phenomenon, yet the use of smart speakers by ...
Michael Haas, Anna Keller
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Frontiers in Computer Science, 2022 IntroductionModern digital devices, such as conversational agents, simulate human–human interactions to an increasing extent. However, their outward appearance remains distinctly technological.
Astrid Carolus, Carolin Wienrich
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mmSafe: A Voice Security Verification System Based on Millimeter-Wave Radar
Sensors, 2022 With the increasing popularity of smart devices, users can control their mobile phones, TVs, cars, and smart furniture by using voice assistants, but voice assistants are susceptible to intrusion by outsider speakers or playback attacks.
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Are you listening? – an observational wake word privacy study [PDF]
Organizational Cybersecurity Journal, 2022 Purpose – Digital voice assistants use wake word engines (WWEs) to monitor surrounding audio for detection of the voice assistant's name. There are two failed conditions for a WWE, false negative and false positive.
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i-com, 2023 With the increasing proliferation of security-critical voice-based services such as voice banking, user authentication on smart speakers is becoming a vital requirement.
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