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Desired Number of Participants
For this workshop, the most fruitful
discussions will be obtained by gathering together practitioners and
researchers with significant experience designing speech based systems and
prototypes. No more than 15 participants will be selected to ensure the novelty
of the suggested techniques and to avoid repetition.
Participant Selection Criteria
We are looking for participants who have lessons to share
(either good or bad) from their experiences with testing or using their
speech-based applications with real world users. Our goal would be to construct
a list of attendees with a wide diversity of experiences including varied
platforms, contexts of use, and user populations. We will select participants
based on of the quality of their proposed "trick of the trade" and the value of
sharing a description of a failed attempt.
Given the dynamic nature of speech technology, preference will be
given to the participants with more recent experience using
speech-based interactive technology. For example, tricks of the trade
that worked well with discrete speech recognition would have little
applicability to today's technologies.
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