Publisher's Synopsis
The recent advances (over the last two decades) in speech technology, coupled with the current interest in the design of more efficient control rooms has led to research being undertaken into the potential of using speech technology in process control environments. Chris Baber assesses this potential, offering human machine interface designers guidelines on the most effective means of implementing speech technology in control room systems.;Opening with a review of current technologies (in language which doews not require a degree in mathematics or engineering to understand!) the author discusses current applications of speech technology in avionics and industry. In this way the reader is provided with a conceptual framework of the technical capabilities, and real applications, of speech technology. Drawing on his own experience of control room ergonomics, he then describes a process control environment, highlighting those areas where speech technology could be of real use (based on task analysis methods), to look at potential areas of applciation. Finally, a discussion of speech based interactions with computers leads into a set of guidelines for the use of speech technology in the control room.
