Speaker: Brian Langner, LTI PhD student
Title: Towards Improving Spoken Presentation of Lists
Abstract:
In this talk, I will describe recent work on improving the spoken 
presentation of lists and groupings of information, focusing on the 
appropriate amount of information to provide. For example, within 
the bus information domain, such lists and groups include things 
like "any of 61C, 61D, 59U, or 64A" and "all of the 61's except for 
the 61D". I describe an experiment designed to examine the limits of 
list size on understandability, methods for increasing the amount of 
provided understandable information, as well as conclusions we can 
draw from the results of this experiment. Further, I will discuss 
future directions and goals for this research, and additionally, its 
use within text-to-speech systems.