A survey on automatic speech recognition systems for Portuguese language and its variations

TA de Lima, M Da Costa-Abreu - Computer Speech & Language, 2020 - Elsevier
Communication has been an essential part of being human and living in society. There are
several different languages and variations of them, so you can speak English in one place …

Findings of the shared task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable Individuals in Tamil

B Bharathi, BR Chakravarthi, S Cn… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
This paper illustrates the overview of the sharedtask on automatic speech recognition in the
Tamillanguage. In the shared task, spontaneousTamil speech data gathered from elderly …

Value co-creation in smart services: a functional affordances perspective on smart personal assistants

R Knote, A Janson, M Söllner… - Journal of the Association …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
In the realm of smart services, smart personal assistants (SPAs) have become a popular
medium for value co-creation between service providers and users. The market success of …

Review of substitutive assistive tools and technologies for people with visual impairments: recent advancements and prospects

ZJ Muhsin, R Qahwaji, F Ghanchi… - Journal on Multimodal User …, 2024 - Springer
The development of many tools and technologies for people with visual impairment has
become a major priority in the field of assistive technology research. However, many of …

Reducing loneliness in stationary geriatric care with robots and virtual encounters—A contribution to the COVID-19 pandemic

A Follmann, F Schollemann, A Arnolds… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The bans on visiting nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, while intended to
protect residents, also have the risk of increasing the loneliness and social isolation that …

Overview of the second shared task on speech recognition for vulnerable individuals in tamil

B Bharathi, BR Chakravarthi, S Cn… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
This paper manifest the overview of the shared task on Speech Recognition for Vulnerable
individuals in Tamil (LT-EDI-ACL2023). Task is provided with an Tamil dataset, which is …

A model to measure QoE for virtual personal assistant

U Saad, U Afzal, A El-Issawi, M Eid - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2017 - Springer
Until now the virtual assistants (like Siri, Google Now and Cortana) have primarily been
confined to voice input and output only. Is there a justification for voice only confinement or …

Design and development of Medication Assistant: older adults centred design to go beyond simple medication reminders

A Teixeira, F Ferreira, N Almeida, S Silva… - Universal Access in the …, 2017 - Springer
Older adults have much to gain from bringing technology into their daily lives. The extent to
which this is possible strongly depends on careful design and accessible, easy-to-use …

Exploring users' mental models for anthropomorphized voice assistants through psychological approaches

D Park, K Namkung - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Various perspectives are being studied to increase the usability and persistence of voice
assistants (VA) as the use is rapidly expanding to various domains. Particularly, many …

An abstraction layer exploiting voice assistant technologies for effective human—Robot interaction

R Alonso, E Concas, D Reforgiato Recupero - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
A lot of people have neuromuscular problems that affect their lives leading them to lose an
important degree of autonomy in their daily activities. When their disabilities do not involve …