Speech Graffiti Tutorial

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Speech Graffiti Tutorial

• MovieLine version
• Fall 03

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What is Speech Graffiti?

• SPEECH GRAFFITI is a special way of speaking that
  makes it faster for you to exchange information
  with a computer that understands your speech.
• Speech Graffiti is easy to learn
• This tutorial will teach you how.
• This tutorial uses a movie information system as
  an example, and afterwards you should be able to
  use any Speech Graffiti application.
• Let's get started!

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How it works

• With Speech Graffiti, you speak information in
  PHRASES just as if you were filling out a form --
  one phrase for each piece of information
• The phrases always sound like this
• movie is Titanictheater is the Manorday is
  Tuesday
• See the pattern?
• You always give the type of thing you're talking
  about
• then say is
• and then state the value you want to specify for
  that field.
• When you want to ask a question, you just say
• what are (or what is)
• and then the thing you want to know about.
• like this movie is Titanictheater is the Manor
  day is Tuesdaywhat are the
  show times?

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What the system says

• The Speech Graffiti system will always confirm
  what it thought it heard you say
• If the system doesnt understand a phrase, it
  wont confirm it, and it will also play this
  sound to alert you that it
  missed something.  
• Then you can simply repeat the missing phrase
• When Speech Graffiti reads lists of things to
  you, it plays this sound to tell
  you that its splitting a long list into smaller
  chunks.
• Say more to hear the next chunk of the list

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What you can say

• Besides entering information in phrases and
  asking questions, Speech Graffiti has keywords
  that will help you interact with the system

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to fix problems

• Say start over to erase everything youve told
  the system and begin again
• Say scratch that to erase just your whole last
  utterance
• Ask where was I? to find out what information the
  system has saved so far

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to get help

• Say help to get general Speech Graffiti help
• Say options to find out what you can talk about
  at any point. For example
• If you say movie is Titanic, options, youll find
  out about the other things in the system you can
  talk about theaters, show times, genres, etc.
• If you say the name of one of these things and
  then say options without giving a value, youll
  find out what values that thing can take. For
  example, neighborhood options would tell you that
  neighborhood can be Squirrel Hill, North Hills,
  Monroeville, etc.

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to browse lists

• more gives you the next chunk of the list
• next gives you the next single item
• previous gives you the previous chunk
• first goes back to the first item in the list
• last skips ahead to the last item in the list
• repeat

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Hints

• Talk to the system in a normal voice
• When youre using a new application for the first
  time, say options to learn what you can talk
  about with that system
• Speech Graffiti remembers what you enter until
  you say start over
• OK that's all there is to know about Speech
  Graffiti! Have fun!