About the course

The goal of this course is to inform the CHI community of the current state of speech and natural language research, to dispel some of the myths surrounding speech-based interaction, as well as to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to learn more about how speech recognition and speech synthesis work, what are their limitations, and how they could be used to enhance current interaction paradigms. Through this, we hope that HCI researchers and practitioners will learn how to combine recent advances in speech processing with user-centred principles in designing more usable and useful speech-based interactive systems.

Course History

This course is based on conference tutorials and courses by same authors presented as:

• “Speech-based Interaction: Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities”, course presented at the CHI Conference, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017, and at the HCII Conference 2016 and 2017.

• “Hands-free Interfaces: The Myths, Challenges, and Opportunities of Speech-based Interaction”, tutorial presented at the MobileHCI Conference, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2017.

• “Natural Interaction for Serious Games: Enhancing Training Simulators through Automatic Speech Recognition”, tutorial presented at the I/ITSEC Conference, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.