Accessibility and Affordance for Voice Interactive Systems with the VoiceXML Technology

This article deals with the problematic of the oral modality as a mean of interaction, improving the usability of the interactive systems. We will introduce a typology of the systems where the use of speech technologies could benefit the Human-Computer Interaction. Then, we will briefly show some results from a case study based on an evaluation of speech recognition for dictation systems in French, relating to age. We will then lay out the future developments of this research.

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