Auditory User Interfaces
Toward the Speaking Computer
T.V. Raman
Advanced Technology Group, Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA,
USA
Auditory User Interfaces: Toward the Speaking
Computer describes a speech-enabling approach that
separates computation from the user interface and integrates
speech into the human-computer interaction. The Auditory User
Interface (AUI) works directly with the computational core of
the application, the same as the Graphical User Interface.
BookDetails
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston
Hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-9984-6
August 1997, 168 pp.
Book Overview
Foreword by David Gries
In his award-winning Ph.D.thesis some three years ago,
T.V.Raman described a computing system, called AsTeR, for
rendering electronic documents aurally. Instead of having to
read documents on a monitor or on paper, one can now listen
to them. In fact, AsTeR's spoken math is far easier to
understand than yours or mine. Moreover, the listener can
browse the spoken document and have parts of it repeated
---even in a different speaking style. AsTeR allows the
usually passive listener to become an active participant in
the understanding of an aural rendering of a document.
Now, Raman has dramatically extended his ideas on talking
computers. Continued
raman@adobe.com
Last modified: Tue Aug 19 17:05:51 1997