| James R. Davis. Back Seat Driver: voice assisted automobile navigation. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1989. |
....range of synthetic speech. While synthetic speech has attained significant intelligibility and a reasonable (male) voice quality [Kla87] it remains under employed in all areas where its use should be obvious: in information applications (such as one that gives driving directions [DH88, DT87, Dav89] as a tool for dramatic prototyping [Cah90, Cah] as the voice of an autonomous agent [WCW97] as a reader to the blind [Ram94] or as a voice for the voice impaired [Kla87, Cah90, MAN88, MA93] The main problem is that synthesized speech is still acoustically and perceptually impoverished. The ....
....information with lexical and intonational decisions. It pronominalizes the current focus of attention and de accents both pronouns and the second mention of a word within the same discourse segment. This work was included and extended in Davis s Back Seat Driver navigation instruction program [Dav89] Using an airline reservation system as the underlying application, Youd and House [You92, YH92] aim for contextually appropriate prosody, where context is mainly the semantic and pragmatic contents of the system s discourse model. The system is rich in linguistic information, and uses speech ....
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James R. Davis. Back Seat Driver: Voice Assisted Automobile Navigation. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1989.
....mathematical expressions. A set of guidelines for presenting spoken mathematics is outlined in [Cha83] and has been used by the Recordings for the Blind (RFB) in producing mathematical texts in talking book format. Presenting information orally can be applied in several different situations. In [Dav89] a system for providing oral instructions to an automobile driver is described. Refer to [DT87,Dav88,DS89,DS90] for related work on this project. Information browsing With the advent of remote access systems to information databases, the need for effective browsing techniques has received ....
James R. Davis. Back Seat Driver: Voice Assisted Automobile Navigation. Ph.D. dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1989.
....started the first file transfer going. It will probably take a few minutes. Meanwhile, do you want to read your new mail The Back Seat Driver The Back Seat Driver is a program which gives real time driving instructions to the operator of a car. Only a brief description is possible here, but see [3]. The Back Seat Driver is installed in a car. A navigation system provides it the current position twice a second. It finds routes using a digital street map, and speaks using a Digital Equipment Corporation Dectalk. As a program which pursues multiple goals over an extended time period in a ....
James R. Davis. Back Seat Driver: voice assisted automobile navigation. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1989.
.... Advice Jim Davis Design Research Institute 502 Theory Center Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853 davis dri.cornell.edu phone 607 255 1134 2 Feb 1994 The Back Seat Driver (BSD) is an computer program that gives driving instructions in real time to the driver of a car[1]. BSD makes no pretense of artistic merit, and it need not convince the driver that it has feelings, but it does need to inspire the driver with confidence (it also needs to be worthy of confidence, but that s another story. What does it mean for the driver to have confidence in the program It ....
James R. Davis. Back Seat Driver: voice assisted automobile navigation. PhD thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1989.
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James Raymond Davis (1989). Back Seat Driver: Voice Assisted Automobile Navigation. Ph.D. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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