Voice User Interface (VUI): A Review of Present and Potential Voice Assistant (VA) applications
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Voice user interface (VUI) could come to replace the graphic user interface (i.e., mobile phone screen and computer). The reason is that users interact with VUI naturally more than touch screen interface. Nevertheless, the VUI with voice assistants still has problems in both acceptance and usability. The factors like privacy issue, voice assistants’ personality, the differentiation of age, language impacts the usability. For this review, 30 papers from the database of conference and research are investigated. Many researchers recommended the multimodality of VUI both input and output make an interface ease of use. For user experience, the speech technique and reformulating query and modeling users is the technique that makes machines understand the context of use better.
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