The prospects for unrestricted speech input for TV content search

  • Authors:
  • Kent Wittenburg;Tom Lanning;Derek Schwenke;Hal Shubin;Anthony Vetro

  • Affiliations:
  • Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA;Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA;Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA;Interaction Design, Inc.;Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The need for effective search for television content is growing as the number of choices for TV viewing and/or recording explodes. In this paper we describe a preliminary prototype of a multimodal Speech-In List-Out (SILO) interface in which users' input is unrestricted by vocabulary or grammar. We report on usability testing with a sample of six users. The prototype enables search through video content metadata downloaded from an electronic program guide (EPG) service. Our setup for testing included adding a microphone to a TV remote control and running an application on a PC whose visual interface was displayed on a TV.