Intelligent dialog overcomes speech technology limitations: the SENECa example

We present a primarily speech-based user interface to a wide range of entertainment, navigation and communication applications for use in vehicles. The multimodal dialog enables the system to uniquely identify one of 79,000 place name variants using an active vocabulary of only 3,000 words at any given time. Low confidence in speech recognition and word-level ambiguities are compensated for in flexible clarification dialogs with the user. The underlying dialog concept was developed in the framework of the EU-project SENECa. Some recent evaluation results of the SENECa system demonstrator are discussed in the paper. Categories and Subject Descriptors J.7 [Computers in other Systems]: Command and control, Consumer products , Real time. General Terms: Design, Human Factors, Legal Aspects.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: IUI
• Authors: Wolfgang Minker, Udo Haiber, Paul Heisterkamp, Sven Scheible
• Keywords: Flexible Clarification Dialogs, IUI 2003, Multimodal Dialog, Software Engineering, Speech-based User Interface