Alexander Manecke

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Research Field:

Usability

Research Topics:

• Connected Home
• Home automation
• Smart Meetering

Biography:Alexander Manecke joined Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in 2006 and currently he is working as a research assistant (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Quality and Usability Lab of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, TU-Berlin. He studied computer science at Freie Universität Berlin and has received a diploma in computer science.Address:Quality and Usability LabDeutsche Telekom LaboratoriesTU BerlinWinterfeldstr. 21D-10787 Berlin, Germany
Telefon:
+49 30 8353 58536   E-Mail: alexander.manecke@telekom.de

Publications

Auditory BCIs for Visually Impaired Users: Should Developers Worry About the Quality of Text-to-Speech Readers?

Zitatschlüssel	laghari2013b
Autor	Laghari, K. and Gupta, Rishabh and Arndt, Sebastian and Antons, Jan-Niklas and Möller, Sebastian and Falk, Tiago H.
Buchtitel	Proceedings of the Fifth International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting 2013
Jahr	2013
DOI	10.3217/978-3-85125-260-6-10
Workshop	Conference
Ort	Pacific Grove, CA, USA
Monat	jun
Notiz	Electronic/online
Wie herausgegeben	Abstract
Zusammenfassung	Auditory-based brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have been gaining significant grounds recently, particularly for visually impaired users. The majority of existing auditory BCIs are based on P300 auditory event related potentials. Previous studies have shown, however, that P300s may be affected by the quality of the presented speech stimuli. Since visually impaired users commonly rely on text-to-speech (TTS) readers to e.g., navigate websites and read documents, this study investigated if the quality of the TTS system had an effect on observed P300 amplitudes. An experiment with 14 healthy subjects showed that indeed TTS synthesizer quality plays a significant effect on P300 amplitude. Hence, it is recommended that auditory BCI developers pay careful attention to the quality of the TTS system commonly utilized by the user, as low-quality systems may negatively affect BCI performance.

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