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Surfing the Web by Voice
Charles Hemphill and Philip Thrift
One-line summary: Speaker-independent, continuous, real-time,
dynamic grammar WWW browser.
Overview/Main Points
- Dynamic grammar - generates grammar on the fly for web pages
- Allows pages to be customized for speech
- Always-available speakable hotlist
- Easy-to-understand grammars
- Speaker-indep., continuous, real-time
Relevance
WWW browsing is one of the killer apps for the Pad. We'd like our WWW
browser to have all the features this system has.
Flaws
- Integrated as part of a browser (NCSA Mosaic), so not portable
- Uses large dictionary (250,000 words)
- Has problems with numbers, non-standard acronyms, invented
words, and novel use of punctuation, abbreviations, etc.
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