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Speech to Speed and Streamline Desktop Computing

Learn the keys to using speech to speed up and streamline computer control. Discover efficient ways to minimize steps, remember commands, and enable combinations for a more efficient workflow. Explore the human-machine grammar that follows the brain's natural language processing.

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Speech to Speed and Streamline Desktop Computing

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  1. Pardon Me, Your Computer’s Showing Using speech to speed and streamline desktop computing Kimberly Patch President, Redstart Systems SpeechTek West February 22, 2007

  2. Keys to Using Speech to Speed • and Streamline Computer Control • Minimizing steps • Making commands easy to remember • Enabling combinations

  3. Human-Machine Grammar • Follows the way the brain works • Designed for controlling a computer

  4. Keys to Using Speech to Speed • and Streamline Computer Control • Minimizing steps

  5. Tap existing knowledge, but don’t let experience confine new methods of communication.

  6. Retrieving a Picture 11 steps

  7. Think outside the silicon box

  8. Retrieving a Picture 11 steps

  9. Retrieving a Picture 3 steps 2 steps

  10. Address Email and Add Subject, First Line 12 steps

  11. Address Email and Add Subject, First Line 12 steps3 steps

  12. Accommodating vs. Direct

  13. Accommodating vs. Direct

  14. Keys to Using Speech to Speed • and Streamline Computer Control • Minimizing steps • Making commands easy to remember

  15. How do you remember commands?

  16. Two Fry

  17. Counter Trey Right

  18. Unit 26, Code 11-31, 13th and Vine

  19. Delta 265, Clear to Land, Runway 3-0

  20. Chair Dance Teeth Grow

  21. Blues 2

  22. Efficiently Worded Instruction

  23. Important Factors • How the brain processes words

  24. Important Factors • How the brain processes words • Memory chunking

  25. Important Factors • How the brain processes words • Memory chunking • Six degrees of separation

  26. Human-Machine Grammar • No synonyms

  27. Human-Machine Grammar • No synonyms • Logical rules to minimize wording possibilities

  28. Human-Machine Grammar • No synonyms • Logical rules to minimize wording possibilities • Follows the way the brain uses language

  29. UC Top 60 Command Words (plus numbers and labels)

  30. Most Common HMG Rules • Match words used for a command as closely as possible • with what the command does • Be consistent • Eliminate synonyms • Follow the way people naturally adjust language to fit • a situation • Follow the order of events

  31. Common Commands Speech On Line Copy 3 Before Window Close Screen Clear

  32. Keys to Using Speech to Speed • and Streamline Computer Control • Minimizing steps • Making commands easy to remember • Enabling combinations

  33. Computer Command Steps

  34. Computer Command Steps

  35. Computer Command Steps

  36. Carnegie Mellon Study 74% of users prefer a structured rather than natural language approach to speech recognition Speech Graffiti Vs. Natural Language: Assessing the User Experience, Stephanie Tomko and Roni Rosenfeld, Carnegie Mellon University www.cs.cmu.edu/~usi/papers/HLT04.pdf

  37. Command Language Based on Efficient Human Process • Minimal steps

  38. Command Language Based on Efficient Human Process • Minimal steps • Easy-to-remember commands

  39. Command Language Based on Efficient Human Process • Minimal steps • Easy-to-remember commands • Combinations

  40. Beyond the Keyboard and Mouse • Speech links • Document access and navigation • Favorites-like lists • Virtual calculator

  41. Word Help – Insert a Special Character 8 steps 7 steps

  42. Beyond the Keyboard and Mouse • Speech links • Document access and navigation • Favorites-like lists • Virtual calculator

  43. kim@redstartsystems.com • www.redstartsystems.com • Human-Machine Grammar • Papers and presentations • Utter Command – speech interface software • that works the way your brain does

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