Speech user interfaces for information retrieval

Abstract

The research proposed here concentrates on the problem of designing and developing a spoken query retrieval (SQR) system to access large document databases via voice. The main challenge is to identify and address issues related to designing an effective and efficient speech user interface (SUI), especially if the aim is to facilitate spoken queries of large document databases. Furthermore, the task of presenting large query result sets aurally should be performed such that the user's short term memory is not overloaded. In this paper, a framework allowing information retrieval to large document databases via voice is presented and findings from a research study using the framework will be discussed as well.

Interactive information retrieval

“…Part-ofobject retrieval research, for example, may try to automate the task of finding the most useful section of an object but the interfaces that present these sections allow searchers to interact in new and useful ways. It can also work the other way: Speech-driven interfaces avoid the need for typing and result in more convenient querying (Gilbert & Zhong, 2001), but can also make it easier to think about querying, which results in better initial queries (Du & Crestani, 2004).…”