ICAT Playdate: Voices of Voice Assistants
Ended Mar 7, 2025
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Term: Spring 2025
Date: March 7th, 2025
Time: 8:30am - 9:30am
Location: Community Assembly in the Creativity + Innovation District Living-Learning Community
Instructor: Phyllis Newbill
Presented By: Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)
Description:
People are increasingly interacting with devices through voice assistants, who tend to use relatively homogenous forms of English, despite the large variety of dialects and accents their users have. In our work we've been exploring the impact of the regional accent (specifically Southern vs. Mainstream US English) of a voice assistant across a number of tasks, on both behavioral measures (memory tasks, driving performance, fact endorsement) and subjective evaluations of the Voice Assistant.
Speakers:
Faculty Team Members: Abby Walker (presenter), Koeun Choi, Philart Jeon, Ben Katz
Grad Student Team Members: Mungyeong Choe, Mahmut Gurdal, Shuqi Yu
Undergraduate Team Members: Katelyn Morris, Eliza Quesenberry