• Journal of Creative Information Culture
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.11-19
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• 2021

With the announcement of the AI national strategy, various policies for AI education are being proposed, and AI convergence education for teachers is actively being promoted. In addition, AI speakers are being sold and distributed to each home, and field studies of educational use of AI speakers have just started. This study examines the controversial problems that AI speakers may cause in AI ethics, and attempts to derive an ethical dilemma that may arise when AI speakers are used at home or at school. This dilemma can be used in the moral competence test (MCT), which measures the level of moral judgment for each group of artificial intelligence speakers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.572-578
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to verify the impact of cognitive and emotional factors on artificial intelligence speakers on the intention of using artificial intelligence speakers. The method for this study was online surveys of people with physical disability. The recognition and necessity of artificial intelligence speakers were also identified, the perceived intimacy, joy, and intention to use them, and a multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to check the influence of each variable on the intention of the disabled to use artificial intelligence speakers. This study have shown that the perceived enjoyment of AI speakers in people with disabilities has shown a significant static effect on their intended use. However, the recognition and necessity of artificial intelligence speakers of the physically handicapped, as well as the perceived intimacy, do not have a statistically significant impact on the intention of using artificial intelligence speakers, according to the analysis. The results of this study suggest that it is necessary to strengthen the elements of enjoyment in order to improve the intention of the disabled to use artificial intelligence speakers, and it is meaningful in that it provides basic data to develop artificial intelligence products and customized services for people with disabilities.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.283-289
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• 2021

Many people with disabilities have shown interest in artificial intelligence speakers that serves as the main hub of the smart home. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the intention of people with disabilities to use such speakers. The focus is on those with physical disabilities, a segment that accounts for the largest number of disability types. Based on the theoretical model of technology acceptance, the effect of perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness of artificial intelligence speakers by people with disabilities was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Research has confirmed that the technology acceptance model is suitable for identifying the intention to use artificial intelligence speakers by people with disabilities, and specifically that the perceived ease of use has a significant impact on usefulness. Furthermore, the perceived ease of use for people with disabilities did not have a statistically significant effect on their intent to use whereas the perceived usefulness was shown to have a significant effect on the same. This study is meaningful as a foundation for developing customized artificial intelligence speaker services and improving the use of artificial intelligence speakers by people with disabilities.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.01a
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• pp.17-18
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• 2019

최근 4차 산업혁명의 핵심 분야 중 하나인 인공지능에 대한 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 많은 기업들이 인공지능 스피커와 같은 제품을 출시하고 있으나 대부분 비서 역할만을 할 수 있도록 구성된 제품이 대부분이다. 그러나 학교와 같이 많은 사람이 존재하는 경우 시끄러운 환경에서 사용되고 있는 인공지능 스피커는 명령 인식이 제대로 되지 않아 실용도가 저하되는 단점을 가지고 있으며, 현재 인공지능 스피커는 단순한 질의응답 수준의 응대만 가능하여 다소 부족한 부분이 있다. 또한 인공지능의 급속한 발전으로 인공지능 스피커가 아닌 전자제품에 인공지능 비서 기능이 탑재된 제품도 새롭게 출시되어 인공지능 스피커가 필요 없을 수도 있기에, 본 논문에서는 학교와 같은 주변의 소음이 많이 발생하는 교육 환경에서도 소통이 가능한 인공지능 마이크를 활용할 수 있는 모델을 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.8
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• pp.127-133
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to analyze the technology trend of artificial intelligent speaker(AI speaker) and to suggest direction of domestic AI speaker through the case study of AI speaker. As a research method, technical background was studied through literature, and then, case of AI speaker was investigated. As a result, It attempts to extend it to the visual interface. One of these attempts is attention to the built-in screen AI speaker. AI speakers should be a platform for humans and computers to interact with, not just convenience facilities. Based on the implications presented in this study, we hope to be able to use it as a reference for predicting the service development direction of domestic artificial intelligent speakers in the future.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.19-29
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• 2020

As the AI speaker market is growing rapidly in recent years, the competition for the preoccupation of children who are the main users and the future prospective customers of the related companies is very intense. However, there is a lack of empirical research on how children interact with AI speakers. Therefore, this research examines the interactions between children and AI speakers, primarily through field studies, to extract what functions they use and what features they have. For this purpose, 799 conversations were collected and analyzed using the log data of the AI speaker recorded in real time. As a result, children were more likely to use children's songs, fairy tales, emotional conversations, and personification compared to adults. In addition, content analysis by specific types resulted in success/failure cases of interaction between children and AI speakers and proposed improvements by failure type. This study is meaningful in that it identifies children's AI speaker preferences, content, and major conversation patterns, and provides guidelines for developing services that meet children's eye level.

• Proceedings of The KACE
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• 2018.01a
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• pp.93-95
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• 2018

음성인식 기술이 인공지능의 핵심 연구 분야로 떠오르면서 음성인식 기술은 인공지능(AI)과 결합하여 음성비서, 자율 주행차, 실시간 음성검색, 음성 통역 등 다양한 분야에서 활용될 것으로 기대되고 있다. 문자가 아닌 음성으로 검색하는 새로운 검색 시장이 확대되면서 '음성이용자인터페이스(VUI: Voice User Interface)' 인 음성비서 서비스 기능을 가진 인공지능(AI) 스피커 시장 경쟁이 시간이 갈수록 가열되고 있다. 이에 인공지능 스피커의 등장배경부터 현재 국내외 음성인식 기기 소개 그리고 앞으로의 교육의 방향에 맞는 음성인식 기기의 교육적 활용 방안에 대해서 알아보고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.1-16
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• 2018

In this study, we investigated age differences of preference and trust ratings when the appearance of an artificial intelligent speaker resembles a human face. The appearance of the artificial intelligent speaker was presented in seven levels from robot face to human face. In addition, face stimuli were divided into gender (male and female) and age (20s / 60s). Participants evaluated the reliability and likability of each face stimulus on a 7-point scale. The results show that younger adults tend to prefer the face that was halfway between the robot and the human face, while older adults evaluated that the perceived reliability and likability were higher when the stimuli resembled the human face. When asked to choose the most preferred of the four face categories, all participants chose a younger face. However, with additional conditions including emoticon face and empty condition, older adults still preferred human face, while younger adults preferred emoticon face and empty condition. Taken together, older adults are more receptive to human faces than robotic faces in the context of artificial intelligence speakers. Because artificial intelligent speakers can play an important role in the elderly living alone, the present study will be a good reference in the design and development of artificial intelligent speakers for the elderly users.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.33-39
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• 2019

Edutech, which combines education and information technology, is in the spotlight. Core technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution have been actively used in education. Students use an AI-based learning platform to self-diagnose their needs. And get personalized training online with a cloud learning platform. Recently, a new educational medium called smart speaker that combines artificial intelligence technology and voice recognition technology has emerged and provides various educational services. The purpose of this study is to suggest a way to use smart speaker educationally to overcome the limitation of existing education. To this end, the concept and characteristics of smart speakers were analyzed, and the implications were derived by analyzing the contents provided by smart speakers. Also, the problem of using smart speaker was considered.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.495-496
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• 2018

As more and more companies introduce artificial intelligent(AI) speakers, the price of the speakers has become a burden to someone. Based on some knowledge and dexterity, it is not difficult to make an AI speaker that acquires sensor information and environmental information of the house in accordance with your own taste. In this paper, we implement an AI speaker using Raspberry Pie, Google Cloud Speech (GCS) and Naver's Clova Speech Synthesis (CSS) API.