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The implementations of online help in most commercial computing applications deployed today have a number of well documented limitations. Speech technology can be used to complement traditional online help systems and mitigate some of these problems. This paper describes a model used to guide the design and implementation of an experimental auditory help system, and presents results from a pilot test of that system.
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Neff, F., Kehoe, A., Pitt, I. (2007). User Modeling to Support the Development of an Auditory Help System. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_51
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