Listening to Natural and Synthesized Speech while Driving: Effects on User Performance
dc.contributor.author | Tsimhoni, Omer | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Green, Paul E. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Lai, Jennifer | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T17:13:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T17:13:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2001-06 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Tsimhoni, Omer; Green, Paul; Lai, Jennifer; (2001). "Listening to Natural and Synthesized Speech while Driving: Effects on User Performance." International Journal of Speech Technology 4(2): 155-169. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45976> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1381-2416 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-8110 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45976 | |
dc.description.abstract | The effects of message type (navigation, E-mail, news story), voice type (text-to-speech, natural human speech), and earcon cueing (present, absent) on message comprehension and driving performance were examined. Twenty-four licensed drivers (12 under 30, 12 over 65, both equally divided by gender) participated in the experiment. They drove the UMTRI driving simulator on a road consisting of straight sections and constant radius curves, thus yielding two levels of low driving-workload. In addition, as a control condition, data were collected while participants were parked. In all conditions, participants were presented with three types of messages. Each message was immediately followed by a series of questions to assess comprehension. Navigation messages were about 4 seconds long (about 9 words). E-mail messages were about 40 seconds long (about 100 words) and news messages were about 80 seconds long (about 225 words). For all message types, comprehension of text-to-speech messages, as determined by accuracy of response to questions, and by subjective ratings, was significantly worse than comprehension of natural speech (79 versus 83 percent correct answers; 7.7/10 versus 8.6/10 subjective rating). Driving workload did not affect comprehension. Interestingly, neither the speech used (synthesized or natural) nor the message type (navigation, E-mail, news) had a significant effect on basic driving performance measured by the standard deviations of lateral lane position and steering wheel angle. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
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dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Artificial Intelligence (Incl. Robotics) | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Signal, Image and Speech Processing | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Communication | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Speech Synthesis | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Text-to-Speech | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Comprehension | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Driving | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Driver Distraction | en_US |
dc.title | Listening to Natural and Synthesized Speech while Driving: Effects on User Performance | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Biomedical Engineering | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2150, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2150, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | IBM Corporation/T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, 10598, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45976/1/10772_2004_Article_350278.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1011387612112 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | International Journal of Speech Technology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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