Sound Barriers: Analysis of Voice as a User Interface for Mobile Appplications and Devices

Sound Barriers, is an Open Research project, led and funded by Inglis Jane Ltd. So if you participated in the research, or want to use the research for non-commercial purposes, then request your free copy here. The aim is to answer two key questions:

1. Has Voice as a User Interface (VUI) finally come of age?
2. If so, what does this mean for mobile apps and devices, and for their designers, developers and users?

Our key objective for the research is that it should be of practical utility, enabling and informing the development of more usable and useful mobile apps and devices. The research included an online consumer survey as well as interviews with professionals, and was carried out between July and September 2009. The analysis includes a new user segmentation for mobile users for VUI.

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Sound Barriers: Analysis of Voice as a User Interface for Mobile Applications and Devices	£850.00 + VAT@15% for purchases in EU
This is the Research Analysis full report. It is in pdf format.
Sound Barriers Consumer Survey: Raw Data.CSV	£559.00 + VAT@15% for purchases in EU
This is the raw, anonymised data from the consumer Voice Survey in .csv format.
Sound Barriers Research Package: Analysis and Consumer Survey Data	£1,200.00 + VAT@15% for purchases in EU
This is the Research Analysis in pdf format, and the raw anonymised data from the survey in .csv format.

Who is this research for?

If you are working in the mobile telecoms sector developing, managing or designing products and services. Or if you are working in the speech recognition or voice services market, developing mobile applications. If you are using Inclusive Design or User-Centred Design you will find this research particularly useful.

• Product managers
• Marketers
• User experience designers
• Developers
• Usability and HMI professionals

You can read a summary of the research, together with the table of contents, here.