Personal Voice Assistant Security and Privacy—A Survey

Ambient Voice Control for a Personal Activity and Household Assistant

Technologies for ambient assisted living (AAL) are used to increase the quality of life of older or impaired persons. This contribution discusses the utilization of automatic speech recognition (ASR) as a natural interface for control of assistive technologies in everyday life situations. We focus on the use of handsfree systems, the technical challenges for the ASR software caused by this and ...

Survey of Personal Digital Assistant Use in Radiology 1

There has been widespread adoption of personal digital assistants (PDAs) within medicine in recent years. However, information on the prevalence and usage of these devices among radiologists is limited. A survey was designed and mailed to randomly selected members of the Radiological Society of North America to determine the percentage of PDA users, their use patterns, and the types of applicat...

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Usability Meets Security -The Identity-Manager as Your Personal Security Assistant for the Internet

In today’s applications, most users disregard the security functionality. They do not have the knowledge and/or the motivation to configure or to use the existing security functions correctly. In this paper, we present a new concept to improve the usability of security mechanisms, introducing an extended classification of protection goals. As a result, the everyday use of security functionality...

Personal Voice Call Assistant: VoiceXML and SIP in a Distributed Environment

In this paper we introduce the architecture of a distributed service platform that integrates speech, web technology and voice-overIP technologies and describe how a specific service can be built using these technologies. The electronic assistant is an advanced voice-based service, that answers incoming calls and takes messages, consulting the user's calendar and address book. A novel contribut...