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Uses and gratifications of smart speakers: modelling the effectiveness of smart speaker advertising

International Journal of Advertising, 2020
The purpose of this study is to identify users’ motives for using smart speakers from a ‘uses and gratification’ perspective and to examine the relationship between these motives and the effectiven...
Heejun Lee, Chang-Hoan Cho
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Smart speaker: Analysis and design concept

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2021
Musical training has recently gained additional interest in education as increasing neuroscientific research demonstrates its positive effects on brain development. Neuroimaging revealed plastic changes in the brains of adult musicians but it is still unclear to what extent they are the product of intensive music training rather than of other factors ...
R. M. Farizuan, A. R. Irfan, H. Radhwan, Shafeeq Ahmad Shamim Ahmad, Muhammad Helmi Abdul Wahab, Muhammad Abu Dzar Al-Ghifari Hisham, Siti Nurul Fatihah Munirah Abdullah   +6 more
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Exploring accidental triggers of smart speakers

Computer Speech & Language, 2022
Voice assistants like Amazon’s Alexa, Google’s Assistant, Tencent’s Xiaowei, or Apple’s Siri, have become the primary (voice) interface in smart speakers that can be found in millions of households. For privacy reasons, these speakers analyze every sound in their environment for their respective wake word like “Alexa,” “Jiǔsì’èr líng,” or “Hey Siri ...
Lea Schönherr, Maximilian Golla, Thorsten Eisenhofer, Jan Wiele, Dorothea Kolossa, Thorsten Holz   +5 more
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My Smart Speaker is Cool! Perceived Coolness, Perceived Values, and Users’ Attitude toward Smart Speakers

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2020
Although smart speakers are widely accepted by consumers today, especially in developed countries such as the United States (US), few marketing-focused empirical studies on smart speakers have been...
Muhammad Ashfaq, Jiang Yun, Shubin Yu
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Supporting Home Quarantine with Smart Speakers

Proceedings of Deep Learning for Wellbeing Applications Leveraging Mobile Devices and Edge Computing, 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 has been lead many countries to ask their citizens to home quarantine. Smart speakers, like the Google Home or Amazon Alexa, that continuously listen for voice commands, can potentially be used to help in monitoring adherence to quarantine rules.
Abrar S. Alrumayh, Chiu C. Tan
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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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A smart speaker performance measurement tool

Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2020
Recently voice-controlled virtual assistants (VA) in smart speakers or smartphones have been popular. As VA provides interactive services by executing complicated processes such as speech recognition, natural language understanding, service invocation, and TTS generation jobs, its functions are performed in the cloud.
Hyunsu Mun, Hyungjin Lee, Soohyun Kim, Youngseok Lee   +3 more
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Exploring smart retailing: anthropomorphism in voice shopping of smart speaker

Information Technology & People, 2022
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of anthropomorphism and identify factors related to adopting voice shopping on smart speakers.Design/methodology/approachProgress in partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) approach is used to test the proposed research framework regarding anthropomorphism and user ...
Yu-Teng Jacky Jang, Anne Yenching Liu, Wen-Yu Ke   +2 more
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Speaker identification for personalized smart TVs

2016 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Taiwan (ICCE-TW), 2016
Personalized service is an important feature for smart TVs. To facilitate personalized services, identifying the user is a necessity. This study investigates how to identify a smart TV user from his/her voice, that is, speaker identification (SID). Recognizing the fact that when a user issues a voice command to a smart TV, the signal received by the ...
Wei-Ho Tsai, Jui-Che Lin, Cin-Hao Ma, Yuan-Fu Liao   +3 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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