Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship

by Clifford Nass and Scott Brave

Book Overview

Interfaces that talk and listen are populating computers, cars, call centers, and even home appliances and toys, but voice interfaces invariably frustrate rather than help. In Wired for Speech , Clifford Nass and Scott Brave reveal how interactive voice technologies can readily and effectively tap into the automatic responses all speech -- whether from human or machine -- evokes. Wired for Speech demonstrates that people are "voice-activated": we...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262140926
• ISBN13: 9780262140928
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher