Julia Cambre

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Firefox Voice: An Open and Extensible Voice Assistant Built Upon the Web

Voice assistants are fundamentally changing the way we access information. However, voice assistants still leverage little about the web beyond simple search results. We introduce Firefox Voice, a novel voice assistant built on the open web ecosystem with an aim to expand access to information available via voice. Fir…

DIS '201st AuthorAgent Personality & Anthropomorphism +1

"All Rise for the AI Director": Eliciting Possible Futures of Voice Technology through Story Completion

How might the capabilities of voice assistants several decades in the future shape human society? To anticipate the space of possible futures for voice assistants, we asked 149 participants to each complete a story based on a brief story stem set in the year 2050 in one of five different contexts: the home, doctor's o…

CHI '201st AuthorIntelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +2

Choice of Voices: A Large-Scale Evaluation of Text-to-Speech Voice Quality for Long-Form Content

The advancement of text-to-speech (TTS) voices and a rise of commercial TTS platforms allow people to easily experience TTS voices across a variety of technologies, applications, and form factors. As such, we evaluated TTS voices for long-form content: not individual words or sentences, but voices that are pleasant to…

CSCW '191st AuthorVoice and speech

One Voice Fits All? Social Implications and Research Challenges of Designing Voices for Smart Devices

When a smart device talks, what should its voice sound like? Voice-enabled devices are becoming a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. Simultaneously, speech synthesis technology is rapidly improving, making it possible to generate increasingly varied and realistic computerized voices. Despite the flexibility an…

CHI '181st AuthorCollaborative Learning & Peer Teaching +1

Juxtapeer: Comparative Peer Review Yields Higher Quality Feedback and Promotes Deeper Reflection

Peer review asks novices to take on an evaluator’s role, yet novices often lack the perspective to accurately assess the quality of others’ work. To help learners give feedback on their peers’ work through an expert lens, we present the Juxtapeer peer review system for structured comparisons. We build on theories of l…

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