Speech Graffiti Tutorial
MovieLine version
Fall 03
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
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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!
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 Titanic…theater is the Manor…day 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…
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what are (or what is)…
and then the thing you want to know about.
like this: movie is Titanic…theater is the Manor…
day is Tuesday…what are the show times?
What the system says
The Speech Graffiti system will always
confirm what it thought it heard you say
If the system doesn’t understand a phrase, it won’t
confirm it, and it will also play this sound
to alert you that it missed something.
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Then you can simply repeat the missing phrase
When Speech Graffiti reads lists of things to you, it
plays this sound
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to tell you that it’s splitting
a long list into smaller chunks.
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Say more to hear the next chunk of the list
What you can say…
Besides entering information in phrases and
asking questions, Speech Graffiti has keywords
that will help you interact with the system
…to fix problems
Say start over to erase everything you’ve
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
…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, you’ll 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, you’ll 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.
…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
Hints
Talk to the system in a normal voice
When you’re 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!