MAS.632
Conversational Computer Systems
Fall 2008
This class explores interaction with mobile computing systems and telephones by voice, including speech synthesis, recognition, digital recording, and browsing recorded speech. Emphasis on human interface design issues and interaction techniques appropriate for cognitive requirements of speech. Topics include human speech production and perception, speech recognition and text-to-speech algorithms, telephone networks, and spatial and time-compressed listening. Extensive reading from current research literature.
Readings
- Individual chapters
- Chapanis, A. “Interactive Human Communication.” Scientific American 232 (1975): 36-42.
- Schmandt, chapter 1.
- Schmandt, chapter 2.
- LEC #: 4 · TOPICS: Speech coding · READINGS: Schmandt, chapter 3. (This is longer than the previous chapters - read with care)
- Schmandt, chapter 4. (skim)
- Schmandt, chapters 5 and 6.
- LEC #: 7 · TOPICS: Review of problem sets and speech recognition intro · READINGS: Schmandt, chapter 7.
- Schmandt, chapter 8.
- Schmandt, chapter 9.
- Duncan, S. “Some Signals and Rules for Taking Speaking Turns in Conversations.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 23, no. 2 (1972): 283-292.
- Schmandt, C. Voice Communication with Computers: Conversational Systems . New York, NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. ISBN: 9780442239350.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.